resolv.conf +dhclient

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How to prevent resolv.conf to be overwritten by dhclient ?

Greetz

[ihayhurst]

according to the manpage for dhcpcd at least , calling it with the -R switch prevents resolv.conf from being toasted

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Since I'm TERRIBLE new at this... is it possible to give a li'l more info on where excactly to specifiy this parameter?

[ihayhurst]

well I'm sure it will be different in every distro, so I changed in to /etc
ran the following find

find . |xargs -i grep -l dhcpcd {}

one of the hits was/etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp

That contained lots of goodies and comments about not bowing away resolv.conf with either dhcpcd or dhclient

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still a little stuck here....

ran the command
output:

./selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts
./selinux/targeted/policy/policy.19
./log.d/scripts/services/dhcpd.conf
./log.d/conf/services/dhcpd.conf

......

[ihayhurst]

the command was basically to scan the contents of files below the etc dir for the word dhcpcd (you could use dhclient here as that seems to be what you've got) to find where it's called in the process of starting a network interface, as this seems to be highly distro sensitive....

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Well I've fixed it!
resolv.conf stays the way it should be.

Tnx

[ihayhurst]

and the resolution (no pun intended) was.... (for the archives)

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It was that simple that I even looked over it myself:

- Started the X window manager
- Open network configuration (same as the ifconfig)
- Unchecked the checkbox "UPDATE DNS VIA DHCP" (or something similar to that) on my eth0 interface
- Saved configuration
- Restarted networking