Problem With Configuring Name Servers

[Micheal Patterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal at tsgincorporated.com>
To: <gerard-seibert at rcn.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers


>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard-seibert at rcn.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:40 PM
> Subject: Problem With Configuring Name Servers
>
>
> > I am fairly new to BSD. I seem to be having a problem setting up my name
> servers correctly.
> >
> > I have the following in the resolv.conf file:
> >
> > domain rcn.com
> > nameserver 207.172.3.8
> > nameserver 207.172.3.9
> >
> > The following entry is in the re.conf file
> >
> > ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
> >
> > Everything, including nslookup, etc works fine until I reboot. Then the
> files are over written. The resolv.conf file then has the following
entries:
> >
> > search cable.rcn.com
> > nameserver 192.168.0.1
> >
> > Obviously, I am doing something incorrectly here. Why are these files
> being rewritten upon rebooting of the machine, and how do I stop it. I
have
> a cable connection that uses "DHCP" . I have the latest release of FreeBSD
> 5.2 installed.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Gerard Seibert
> > gerard-seibert at rcn.com
> >
> >
>
> In /etc there will be a file called dhclient.conf. If it doesn't exist,
> create it and add the following:
>
> interface "rl0" {
> prepend domain-name-servers 207.172.3.8;
> prepend domain-name-servers 207.172.3.9;
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers ;
> require subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers ;
> }
>
> What this will do is take the information that is provided during the dhcp
> initialization and add the above to the information it recieves from the
> server. If you don't want to use any of the name servers provided by
dhcpd,
> remote the domain-name-servers portion from the request entry. If you need

> any further specifics, check out man dhclient.conf for other options to
add
> to this file.  I think that this will do what you're looking for though.

Argh. spellcheckers are evil I say.  remove !remote


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Micheal Patterson
Network Administration
TSG Incorporated
405-917-0600