Yes thank you. It is working fine for me as well now, Here is the relevant line. request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, # <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-409110.html"> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-409110.html</a> # domain-name-servers, host-name, netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope; Actually what I had earlier overlooked was commenting out domain-name-servers from this request so while the DNS server addresses where correctly prepended, they were being requested again. What I was looking for though was the elegant solution. I am a noob to the world of unix but from what I have read/know about it, it's networking code is absolutely the best. Which leads me on to thinking what it is that I can do for the DHC protocol to take effect the way it is supposed to, rather than me hardcoding things in its config files which IMHO is a bull headed approach to making things work. Somewhere on bugzilla people are recommending rolling back to an older version of some package, but surely with the amount of chatter this issue has created it must have been fixed by now. And the fact that DHCP works in MS XP without any tweaks sticks out like a sore thumb. Why can't I recreate the same in ubuntu? ~NJ <div>On 17/11/2007, Martin Walshe <<a href="mailto:plasticman3327@gmail.com">plasticman3327@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I had this same issue although the prepend worked fine for me. Can you send on the line you have entered with the prepended dns info? On Nov 16, 2007 9:32 PM, Nitin Jaswal <<a href="mailto:nitin.jaswal@gmail.com"> nitin.jaswal@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > with .resolv.conf.mtnl containing the correct DNS addresses. > What is the elegant way of doing it? Infact what can I do to take it back to > its earlier state where everything would automagically work? > I have tried editing /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf by adding prepend > domain-name-servers but that did not work. I am attaching contents of the > /var/log/daemon.log before and after I execute setdns. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>