DNS from wireless ADSL router

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> The NetworkManager on my Laptop always retrieves the DNS IP 192.168.1.1
> from the ADSL modem/router (this is of course the address of the router
> itself). This seems to work fine, i.e., web browsing etc. However ssh is
> very slow to log in (> 20s). If I manually replace the 192.168.1.1 by
> some static DNS servers from the provider, everything works at the
> expected speed. However NetworkManager always puts the retrieved number
> whenever it reconnects, and I could not find a way to disable this
> behaviour.
If you are using DHCP to configure the port, then chances are that
that is how it is getting set. You need the PEERDNS=no option in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? - there is a checkbox
option for it in the network configuration GUI.

Mikkel
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