Am 15.06.2011 20:53, schrieb Dale: > Juan Diego Tascón wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27 AM, YoYo Siska wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list! >>>> >>>> for some wireless access points, I want to get an IP via DHCP but not >>>> use the provided DNS-server (I use an openvpn setup with its own DNS >>>> server, domain name, etc.). >>>> >>>> In /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.2-r1/net.example it reads: >>>> # Setting name/domain server causes /etc/resolv.conf to be overwritten >>>> # Note that if DHCP is used, and you want this to take precedence then >>>> # please put -R in your dhcpcd options >>>> >>>> But dhcpcd does not seem to have a -R option. It does have a --static >>>> option, though. While this is good enough for simply setting the DNS >>>> server, it does not seem to allow specifying domain names or >>>> search-domains (at least it is not shown in the man-page). >>>> >>>> Please tell me what the proper way is and whether the mention of >>>> "-R" is >>>> a documentation bug. >>>> [...] >>> >>> So to stop dhcpcd from touching your DNS or MTU settings >>> you would do:- >>> dhcpcd -C resolv.conf -C mtu eth0 >>> [...] >> >> I use the google dns servers so I created a /etc/resolv.conf file and >> set the i attribute on it: >> >> chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf >> >> that way it can't be removed or overwritten and you won't have that >> problem no matter what dhcp client you are using >> [...] > dhcp_eth0="nodns" A, great. That's exactly what I was looking for. Wonder why I overlooked it. Probably because I searched the example file for DNS and dns. -.- Thanks for all the proposals! I guess I stick with the nodns option. The others aren't bad to know, either. Regards, Florian Philipp