dhclient trashes my resolv.conf

Oliver Lehmann lehmann at ans-netz.de
Thu Oct 28 08:47:24 PDT 2004


Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> I've tried supersede domain-name-servers ""; in /etc/dhclient.conf, But
> that seems to have no effect. I can't see any other way to prevent
> dhclient from touching my resolv.conf in that man page. Maybe you can
> point me?
> 
> man 8 dhclient-script says
> 
> HOOKS
>        When  it  starts,  the  client  script  first defines a shell
>        function, make_resolv_conf , which is later used to create  the 
>        /etc/resolv.conf file.    To  override  the default behaviour,
>        redefine this function in the enter hook script.
> 

Martin,

do you think, it is a good solution to overwrite the function definition
to prevent overwriting your resolv.conf? Wouldn't be a rc.conf parameter
easier for beginners to "get", and more stringent to the whole system of
configuration?
What do others think?

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