On 2011-08-26, I?igo Ortiz de Urbina <tarom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all users and developers
>
> I simply noticed what I would call a weird behaviour on my 32 bit 4.9
> GENERIC#671 box's dhclient, which I hope is not the expected behavior.
> While reading RFC2131, I didnt find any sentence stating or implying
> that is the desired behavior, as in a "server MUST...".
>
> Say I run a local instance of named on my machine. I dont want dhcp to
> overwrite my resolv.conf, so I add the classical prepend
> dns-name-servers to my dhclient.conf.
>
> I capture the traffic while asking for an IP address (no prior leases)
> and I can see how DHCP packets do not request DNS servers. However,
> which I am afraid happens more often than not, my crappy Comtrend
> domestic router ignores the request and simply decides to always
> answer including my ISPs DNS servers. I could check this with
> Wireshark also. The result is resolv.conf has 3 nameserver entries,
> instead of the only one I want to prepend.

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean but perhaps you want "supersede"
instead of "prepend".

Best regards,
Jona

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