browser problems

[Dan Ziolkowski]

I removed the phrase "domain-name-servers" from the dhclient.conf file. I
still lose the setting after reboot. Maybe the change needs to be made to
dhclient-script file?

Dan

On 7/15/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> Dan Ziolkowski wrote:
>
> > I did more work on this, first it is not related to an old version of
> > Firefox, as the same problem occurs in Galean and Epiphany browsers.
> >
> > It seems to be a DNS setting issue. When you open the "Network
> settings",
> > the DNS is shown as 192.168.0.1, which is my router. If you change the
> DNS
> > to 208.67.222.222 (which is Open DNS, and is what my router is set for)
> > the problem goes away.
> >
> > However, I can only save this setting under ETH0, it won't save under
> > WLAN, (actually is appears to be saved, but reverts back to the
> > 192.168.0.1 when you reopen Network settings.)
> >
> > It will save if you are in ETH0, and is still there when you reopen
> > Network settings, but then when you switch to WLAN, it reverts back to
> > 192.168.0.1.
> >
> > So why won't this work for WLAN?
>
> The difference, I think, is because network-manager is handling the wlan0
> interface, and not handling the eth0 interface.
>
> The reason though that the DNS settings change is that dhcp is configured
> (in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf) to ask for a DNS setting (request
> subnet-mask ... domain-name-servers).  If you remove
> the "domain-name-servers" parameter, it should leave your settings alone.
> I believe that for eth0, currently, you're getting the 192.168.0.1 value
> back from the router, _then_ overriding it with the value
> in /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> otoh, it doesn't seem right that using your local DNS cache on the router
> should cause problems.
> --
> derek
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