NetworkManager
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Jul 15 11:23:48 UTC 2005
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:40 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >
> > It should be optional - I can't use it for that reason. It needs to
> > use
> > the nameserver specified by the dhcp server or I can't use it.
> >
>
> Won't the local caching name server look to that DHCP provided DNS
> server for "upstream" dns info?
Exactly, NetworkManager gets the DNS server addresses via DHCP, then writes them
to the caching-nameserver's config file. So your local machine always talks to
127.0.0.1, but the caching-nameserver talks to yhe real DNS servers.
Dan
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