resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup

[Duane Whitty]

Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:29, Duane Whitty wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE
>>
>> I use  DHCP to configure my network interface.
>> At startup my resolv.conf is overwritten, setting my
>> nameserver to the address of the router running DHCP.
>>
>> I tried commenting out almost all of the rc.d/resolv
>> startup script but to no avail.
>>
>> I read the man page for dhcp-options and then proceeded to add
>> option domain-name-servers a.b.c.d
>> This was also of no help.
>>
>> I then remembered something about FBSD 6 no longer using ISC dhcp client.
>>
>> I am running BIND 9.3.1 with internal and external views of my namespace
>> set-up so
>> it is imperative that I be able to tell hosts on the internal network
>> which name server
>> to use.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate the help.
>>
>>     
> You need to use supersede like this:
>
> interface "ath0"   {
> 	supersede domain-name "yourdomain.com";
> 	supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
> }
>
> See man dhclient.conf for more options.
>
> Beech
>   
Hi,

That worked perfectly.  Thanks to all for the quick responses.

Sincerely,

Duane