Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

[আনন্দ কুমার সমাদ্দার Ananda Samaddar]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:58:41 -0500
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mellertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Thanks Mikkel but I don't think this works.  In the ifcfg settings if
you specify a DNS server then the network is assumed to have static
DNS.  So if I put DNS1=127.0.0.1 in the the ifcfg-em1 file all I get in
resolv.conf is that nameserver and not the one supplied by my router
underneath.

Ananda