Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Banning wrote: DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly. It's likely that you could release and renew your lease ("dhclient -r", maybe?) and cause it to get new DNS info if the old values are no longer working. Here may be the answer. I think of DHCP of being a server thing onl

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Greg Barniskis
David Banning wrote: My problem is that the server I use for DNS keeps going dead. My ISP is most familiar with windows users who get their DNS automatically from their connection. When my ISP gives me a good DNS server number, it seems to go dead six months later, and I have to call them agai

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread David Banning
> >Is there a way to get DNS automatically, say from the DHCP connection IP > >address given to me? or, is there some great free DNS server that will > >stay in business for some time that I can plug into my resolv.conf? > > DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly. It's likely that you

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Banning wrote: My problem is that the server I use for DNS keeps going dead. My ISP is most familiar with windows users who get their DNS automatically from their connection. When my ISP gives me a good DNS server number, it seems to go dead six months later, and I have to call them agai

getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread David Banning
My problem is that the server I use for DNS keeps going dead. My ISP is most familiar with windows users who get their DNS automatically from their connection. When my ISP gives me a good DNS server number, it seems to go dead six months later, and I have to call them again. Is there a way