Configuring DNS

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 12.29 12:24, Tim wrote:
> 
> Geoffrey Leach:
> > I wish to add a secondary DNS server. Adding the IP address to the
> DNS
> > section in system-config-network appears to work, but after saving
> the
> > config and rebooting, the newly-added IP address has vanished.
> 
> 
> Ankush Grover:
> > dns entries are stored in /etc/resolv.conf file
> >
> > enter the values again through system-config-network and then check
> > the file /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Such settings can disappear if your dial-up/ISP-connect scripts
> rewrite
> your resolv.conf file with name server addresses discovered from your
> ISP.
> 
> If so, and you never want to use their's, you can configure your
> dial-up
> script not to update the resolf.conf file.  I seem to remember that
> the
> wvdial man file(s) detailed how to do that.

Hmmm... nasty.  But not in my case.  FWIW I'm running satelite  
broadband. Not only won't they rewrite resolv.conf, but if I tell their  
tech support that I'm running Linux they won't talk to me!