Re: FC6 Network Definitions

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:58 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
> I've just finished a clean install of FC6 using the network parameters that
> was used by FC4 prior to the install.  I'm on a Windows network, but I have
> a static IP address. I ended up with a corrupted hosts file, so there was
> no loop-back.

You can manually repair that.  I found FC6 fouled up the hosts file
after I used the network configuration GUI to set the hostname.  The
loopback line for IPv4 disappeared, leaving just the IPv6 one behind.

> My issue is with resolv.conf and the fact that the windows
> dns servers are wrong. On the neighbor Windows box the dns servers are
> accessed dynamically.  How can I duplicate this but keep my static address?

man dhclient.conf

You can request certain information (e.g. the DNS servers), and set
others yourself (e.g. your IP).

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