how to keep search suffix in /etc/resolv.conf

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sat Nov 15 17:20:03 UTC 2003


On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Jingcao Hu wrote:

> Every time, when the system reboot, the dhcp client overwrite it. I am fine
> with the given DNS server, but I would like to keep my search suffix. More
> specifically, I want to have the "search a.b.c" to the domain that I want.
> 
> I know that I can use rc.local to hack that, but is there a standard or neat way?

You have two options:

First is to configure your DHCP server to serve up those search domains 
via adding this to your /etc/dhcpd.conf file on your DHCP server:

option domain-name "a.b.c";

Or, in the ifup-eth0 file, add "PEERDNS=no"

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