multiple nameservers in resolvconf.conf

Igor R. freebsd at str.komkon.org
Wed Mar 22 01:34:56 UTC 2017


Yes! That worked!
Thank you, Eric! I don't know how I didn't think about it...

Igor

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Eric van Gyzen wrote:

> On 3/21/17 4:52 PM, Igor R. wrote:
>> 
>> How one can specify multiple name servers in each of the
>> following options in resolvconf.conf:  (note, it is not resolv.conf!)
>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=resolvconf.conf&sektion=5
>> 
>> append_nameservers
>> and
>> prepend_nameservers ?
>> 
>> 
>> Even though the options have "nameservers" in plural, I could not find
>> any example anywhere on the net that would indicate multiple values for
>> these two options.
>> 
>> I've tried
>> append_nameservers=127.0.0.1, 192.168.15.2
>> append_nameservers=127.0.0.1,192.168.15.2
>> append_nameservers=127.0.0.1 192.168.15.2
>> append_nameservers=127.0.0.1; 192.168.15.2
>> as well as specifying them on separate lines:
>> append_nameservers=127.0.0.1
>> append_nameservers=192.168.15.2
>> 
>> These different version yield 3 different outcomes, but none of them
>> produces resolv.conf (upon running resolvconf -u) with both servers in
>> there.
>
> The config file is in /bin/sh syntax, so I imagine it would be:
>
> append_nameservers='127.0.0.1 192.168.15.2'
>
> Give that a shot.
>
> Eric
>


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