Custom Local DNS with Ubuntu Clients

[Aero Maxx]

The router is announcing itself to the network as the DNS server so Ubuntu
picks up 192.168.1.1 in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

On 11 March 2018 at 16:01, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 March 2018 at 15:53, Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have a single linux desktop client running Ubuntu, and have 2 physical
> > servers that are on my network that providing DNS resolution.
> >
> > I want the linux desktop to use the local servers for DNS resolution
> only,
> > but Ubuntu somehow keeps finding the DNS server that is in the
> router/modem
> > that my ISP has provided me with.
>
> Can't you change it in the router?
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > Is there a way I can stop the IP address of my router from being added to
> > the /etc/resolv.conf file?
> >
> > I tried removing the resolvconf package, but this broke things as for
> some
> > reason I wasn't able to then create my own resolv.conf file.
> >
> > Thanks for any help you are able to give me.
> >
> >
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