"resolv.conf" question

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

Thanks, Derek,
I used "prepend" keyword, and it has been working fine.

--
Soo-Hyun


On 8/15/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>
> > Soo-Hyun Choi schrieb:
> >
> >> I have installed and configured "dnsmasq" for caching DNS locally.
> After
> >> that, I inserted "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to "resolv.conf" file. But, the
> >> resolv.conf file is keeping changed without my intention, which means
> >> "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is continuously removed from the file.  I am
> using
> >> a cable Internet service with DHCP IP allocation from an ISP (Internet
> >> Service Provider).
> >>
> >> I can only guess that the renew process of my IP from the ISP is
> involved
> >> somehow to remove the "nameserver 127.0.0.1" from my resolv.conf file.
> Is
> >> there any way that I can fix the "resolv.conf" file with my intended
> >> contents?
> >
> > If you're using dhclient to receive an IP address from your ISP you
> > might take a look at /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. There you can tell
> > dhclient what to request from your provider's DHCP server.
> > For me the relevant part of the file looks like this:
> >
> > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> >         domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
> >         netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;
> >
> > You may want to remove "domain-name-servers" from that.
>
> Or just use
> prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>
> and leave everything else as-is.  Then the first name server is 127.0.0.1
> but it can still use the ISPs servers as a fallback
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> derek
>
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