Rick Stevens wrote:
jludwig wrote:
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 01:04 pm, Nat Gross wrote:
Hi; I recently changed my stations to NOT use dhcp (as well as the Linksys router) and everything is fine and dandy. EXCEPT, that upon every re-boot, the etc/resolv.conf which has my isp's dns's, gets overwritten with a blank file, and my web programs cease to operate. The resolv.conf sitting in etc/sysconfig/networking.... is ok, and I just copy it over to etc/resolv.conf. Which program is doing this, and how do I tell it to stop.
Thank you; -nat ps. While I was using dhcp, the router was also supplying the nameservers, so I didn't need /etc/resolv.conf.
You o need /etc/resolv.conf, DHCP or not. That's what the resolver library looks at to find the appropriate DNS services. Without it, you only have the items in /etc/hosts.
When I install a fresh FC3, with DHCP, I do not need to enter my isp's nameservers, anywhere. The system gets the dns info from the same router thats doing dhcp. (Why they tied these 2 functions, I don't know.)
You could chattr the file to immutable, and this should cause some sort of errer message.
The way to prevent DHCP from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf is to set "PEERDNS=no" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx (see the stuff around line 288 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup).
(It took me a while to test this, since I had to reboot a station.) The PEERDNS=no did NOT solve the problem.
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Thanks; -nat
