DNS (Was ISPs)

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Oct 24 19:21:21 CDT 2001


According to the pump man page, this behavior can be disabled on the
command line with '-d' or '--no-dns', or by adding the 'nodns' directive
to /etc/pump.conf.  Dhcpcd's man page says that you can use the '-R'
command line flag for similar results.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, JD Runyan wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a way to overide this behavior myself.  I
> have my linux workstation acting as the gatway to the net for my other
> systems(i know I should not use the workstation as the firewall, but I
> am cheap and lazy) The other systems are using the caching server on my
> linux box while my linux box looks at road runner for its answers.  It
> is agrivating.  I would love to over-ride this behavior.
> 
> On Wed, Oct ,  at 12:11:16PM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > "Don Erickson" <derick at shark.zeni.net> wrote in message
> > news:200110231250.f9NCokO4012332 at shark.zeni.net...
> > > In article <3BD454AA.9030708 at mrj412.com> you write:
> > 
> > > >One problem that I have is that RR's DNS servers are very flaky at
> > > >times, so you will want to use some other ones as backup (actually,
> > > >anyone know how to do that on my RedHat 7.2 machine, seems whatever DHCP
> > > >gets is what is used, but I want to override them with a couple of
> > > >stable public ones...)
> > 
> > > I suggest putting the IPs of the servers you want to use in
> > > /etc/resolv.conf  That should do it.
> > 
> > Don, DHCPCD and PUMP both overwrite /etc/resolv.conf.  I suppose you could
> > make the file read-only.d
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 




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