Scribbling feverishly on January 09, Joel Hammer managed to emit: > Thanks. > I have no idea about kernels and libraries, all just mystical C talk to me.
Short version: it is the resolver library that handles the name lookup stuff. So, while it may seem mystical, it's good to know. > I was asking this question because I wanted to understand if I had to rename > my /etc/resolv.conf.dhcp file to /etc/resolv.conf after dhcpcd creates the > latter file. I guess the answer would be yes, if I want to be sure I am > using the current name servers. Since I use a caching name server, I don't > think that i crucial. I'm guessing that the dhcp client daemon uses the right file. One way to test this is to do some lookups after dhcpcd creates its version of the resolver configuration file. Using the dig or nslookup command, you should see the server that gets queried displayed. To wit: $ dig www.kurtwerks.com ... ;; Query time: 58 msec ;; SERVER: 24.8.89.15#53(24.8.89.15) ;; WHEN: Thu Jan 10 09:29:19 2002 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 247 The SERVER line shows the server dig (Domain Information Groper) queried. Kurt -- Tomorrow, you can be anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
