stopping my isp from updating my resolv.conf

bjkeefe ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu Sep 28 00:27:32 UTC 2006


mmealman wrote:

> Try editing your /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf file and change the
request

> field to not request domain-name-servers.



Dennis K wrote:

....and add some prepend statements for your own dns servers too :)





Thanks to BrownR, at
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1410184&postcount=3



and mmealman and Dennis K in this thread, I have (mostly) resolved a
similar problem on my system.  On mine, resolv.conf was being
overwritten upon reboot.  I did this:



o removed the domain-name-servers entry from the request line in
dhclient.conf



o uncommented the prepend line in dhclient.conf, deleted the 127.0.0.1
entry, and added two DNS server addresses on this line, separated by a
comma.  (These are the nameservers used by my ISP, so there's no point
in reproducing them here.)  Note that the trailing semi-colon probably
shouldn't be deleted.  (Gurus: is that right?)



Upon reboot, resolv.conf is *almost* what I want.



The last issue: the line "search domain.invalid" still gets written
into  the system-created resolv.conf after reboot.  Any suggestions? 



Thanks!


-- 
bjkeefe




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