just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Apr 4 10:50:57 PDT 2005


"Brian John" <brianjohn at fusemail.com> writes:

> > On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently
> > > across boots, unless you change it again.
> > >
> >
> >
> > dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf on boot
> 
> How can I keep dhclient from doing this?

Configure it not to: according to "man dhclient.conf", a 
"prepend domain-name-servers <mumble>" should do it.

Or better yet, fix your router so that it either provides DNS services
or stops telling your FreeBSD machine that it does.  


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