getting DNS from DHCP IP address
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jun 16 20:22:22 GMT 2005
David Banning wrote:
>> DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly. It's likely that you
>> could release and renew your lease ("dhclient -r", maybe?) and cause it to
>> get new DNS info if the old values are no longer working.
>
> Here may be the answer. I think of DHCP of being a server thing only,
> to win boxes. I hadn't considered using dhclient on the freebsd host.
> I will look into this. It sounds like the answer.
>
> Thanks -
You're welcome.
>> "Trawn-nah?"
>
> spoken like a true native -
:-)
[ If we've mystified anyone, people actually from Toronto use only two
syllables. Although I'm not from there, actually, I was born in a place called
"Wooster" which is spelled "Worchester", so I've needed to pay attention to
this issue from early on. ]
--
-Chuck
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