/etc/resolv.conf changes

[John Summerfield]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:24 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:58 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:09 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> Clients are not required to use the local network's suggestions for DNS
> servers--they can use any servers they can reach by IP address.  (For
> example, clients can run their own caching nameservers, and just use
> 127.0.0.1 as the DNS server IP.)

I have a laptop that runs BIND, and I've configured the DHCP client to 
update the BIND configuration to use offered servers as forwarders. On 
that laptop, my DNS server _is_ at 127.0.0.1.

It works very well.



> 
> Some wireless routers will get their own IP addresses by DHCP from, say,
> a DSL modem (which may in turn get its IP address and DNS server info
> from the ISP).  As a DHCP server, the modem may provide DNS server
> information to the router.  As a DHCP client, the router may accept that
> information or the user may set it (and/or the router's IP address)
> manually.

Exactly.



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