Configuring DNS

[Geoffrey Leach]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:42:41, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:27, Geoffrey Leach wrote:

> > > Every time your system reboots or the dhcp daemon is restarted the
> > > resolv.conf file is rewritten.
> 
> > Indeed, "generated by /sbin/dhclient-script" No luck figuring out 
> > where that script gets its data from, but perhaps I should try 
> > harder :-)

> It gets it from the dhcp data sent by your dhcp server.

> > My point is that using system-config-network should, I would think, 

> > change the data in the right place if it was being used correctly.  
> > No?

> If you check the 'automatically obtain DNS information from
> the provider' box, I'd expect it to use that instead.  If you
> saved the config with that box unchecked and it still uses
> the providers addresses instead of yours, I'd consider it
> a bug.

Correct on both counts.  The checkbox is found by selecting the eth0
device and editing.  The Bugzilla entry is 164426.