How did the /etc/resolv.conf appear?

Peter Matulis petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Sun Dec 17 09:32:41 PST 2006


--- a at zeos.net wrote:

> The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the next:
> 
> nameserver 82.207.67.2
> nameserver 213.179.244.18
> 
> Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org 
> or InterNIC, but of my ISP.
> 
> I wonder how the system found these IP addresses?
> 
> Are these entries created during installation?

They were probably put there by your internet access mechanism (PPP /
PPPOE).

Peter

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