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From: "Nick Rout" <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:50:07 +1200 (NZST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Cpymt9eU.1159145406.8155430.nick@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609250232.08255.harmgeerts@home.nl>


the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the "e" in resolv !)



On 9/25/2006, "Harm Geerts" <harmgeerts@home.nl> wrote:



>On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote:

>> I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this

>> exactly...

>>

>> Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated?

>

>yes

>

>> I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the

>> DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some

>> replacement ones.  I think that by setting the DNS servers in

>> the /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info file might change that, however,

>> the file looks machine-generated to me.

>

>It doesn't, that file only shows what the dhcp server told dhcpcd to use.

>It is not used by your system for dns information.

>

>/etc/resolv.conf lists the dns servers your system uses. (nameserver)

>

>> I looked through the wiki to fix this problem but I didn't find anything

>> that looked like it'd help.  Some assistance here would be great.

>>

>> The two DNS servers I need are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.

>

>Configure dhcpcd to run with -R so resolve.conf is not replaced with the

>resolve directives recieved from the dhcp server.

>

>In /etc/conf.d/net:

>config_eth0=("dhcp")

>dhcpcd_eth0="-R"

>

>Now you can add/replace your own dns servers in /etc/resolve.conf

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25  0:05 [gentoo-user] Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD Lord Sauron
2006-09-25  0:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-09-25  0:50   ` Nick Rout [this message]
2006-09-25  3:15     ` Harm Geerts

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