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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