Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 05/18/2013 08:41 AM, আনন্দ কুমার সমাদ্দার Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just installed Fedora 18 X86-64.  I disabled and uninstalled
> networkmanager and use the standard networking stuff which seems to
> use dhclient. I'm using a standard ethernet connection.
>
> So I need to do two things.  Feel free to tell me to RTFM if you can
> provide a link!
>
> 1.  How do I enable pre-pending of nameservers?  I want to use dnsmasq
> to cache DNS requests so I need to add 127.0.0.1 to the top of
> resolv.conf.  Google searchs take me to the Arch Wiki.  I can't seem to
> find a dhclient.conf file anywhere in /etc.
>
> 2.  How do I assign a zone in firewalld to my connection?  I want to be
> able to open ports for bittorrent and XMPP jingle voice/video.  The
> firewalld wiki on the Fedora site doesn't seem to be able to answer my
> question.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Ananda Samaddar
You may want to read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.42.2/sysconfig.txt
- search for PEERDNS.

Mikkel

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