The door open and in walked trouble - disguised as our our old nemesis [EMAIL PROTECTED], who uttered, at Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:00 :
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:43:06 -0400 > From: Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Slow internet browsing. > To: Sandro Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 9/13/05, Sandro Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thank you all for the ULTRA fast reply, > > i had an entry in the resolv.conf that did not belong there. > > problem solved. > > something is bothering me... > > the entry stated that it was the ip of my gateway 10.0.5.1 > > wich is the same address that the DHCP server gives out. > > why is it causing problems ? > Many (most?) small firewall/router/nat boxes list themselves as the > DNS server when they do DHCP, and they try to proxy the DNS service. > Some of them don't seem to do it right when you are using a DNS server > on your internal network (and perhaps other situations), and you end > up with long delays like you describe. If that's what is going on, > the problem will reappear every time you boot the system and get a new > DHCP lease (and perhaps every time the lease is renewed), because the > dhcp client will rewrite /etc/resolv.conf. > In 5.4R I think you can edit /etc/dhclient.conf and add some > statements that put the correct entry in regardless of of what the > DHCP server tells it. E.g. something like > > interface "ep0" { > prepend domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2; > } > > would always use 192.168.1.2 as the primary DNS server for interface > ep0 regardless of what the DHCP server says to use. See the > dhclient.conf man page for more details. > > FreeBSD is in the process of adopting a new dhcp client, but I think > this still applies to 5.4R. > And yes, this question really belonged on -questions, not -stable, but > it's not really a big deal, I guess. When in doubt, use -questions. He could also run chflags schg on the /etc/resolv.conf to keep it from being re-written. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"