NetworkManager + opendns?

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Dec 18 17:36:11 UTC 2007


Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 07:32 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Any suggestion on configuring so that NetworkManager with dhcp will work
>> with opendns?  What I'd like to happen is either:
>>
>> 1) preferred.  A local caching NS that forwards my internal net lookups to
>> my internal DNS servers when I'm at work, and forwards others to opendns.
>>
>> 2) No local caching server, but again forward internal lookups to internal
>> DNS servers (maybe learned from dhcp), and forwards others to opendns.
> 
> Those are functions of the DHCP server, not the client.  The DHCP server
> is supposed to update DNS when it grants a lease for an IP.
> 
The client can override the DHCP server for the host it is running
on. For example, the PEERDNS=no option says to ignore the DHCP
server's DNS information.

Mikkel
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