New DNS entry will not take effect

[Wade Smart]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>>> Wade Smart wrote:
>>>> 20080728 0744 GMT-6
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I changed my dns to opendns. I opened the network gui and put in my
>>>> opendns addr's but when I went back later, they were not there.
>>>>
>>>> Then I found a post on this:
>>>> sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
>>>>
>>>> and tried that and still, it did not take. Found another post saying:
>>>> sudo gedit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>>>>
>>>> and add:
>>>> prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220;
>>>>
>>>> which I did and still it did not take.
>>>>
>>>> Im not sure what is up here but surely I dont have to use my ISP's dns.
>>>>
>>>> Wade
> ...
>> Your prepend domain-name-servers was the right way to go.  However, this
>> will only take effect when your DHCP client requests an IP address from
>> the ISP, so for these settings to take effect, you need to disable your
>> network interface then re-enable it.
> 
> go back and look over the complete instructions at opendns.org --
> 
> https://www.opendns.com/start?device=ubuntu
> 
> The ifdown and ifup commands in the last part of their instructions
> disable and re-enable the network interface (as Rashkae suggested),
> which of course you can do using GUI tools OR from the command line as
> the opendns people suggested. The new dns settings should take effect
> as soon as the network interface comes back up.
> 

20080728 1129 GMT-6

That did it. Finally.

Thanks

wade