A weird question on DNS and booting Mandrake

[Tony Hammitt]

Mandrake and Red Hat both put a lot of stuff in /etc/sysconfig/network, so I'd
start by poking around in there.

You could put your fix.dns as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, too.  That way
it would run when needed.  This isn't a laptop is it?  I have lots of things to
reconfigure on mine depending on where it's plugged in.  If it's a desktop,
you can just do the same thing all of the time.. =-]

Later,

    Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kendric Beachey <ak at kc.rr.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: A weird question on DNS and booting Mandrake

> Every time I boot my Mandrake 7.2 machine, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf so 
> that it contains only one entry, 127.0.0.1, which frankly doesn't do me a lot 
> of good.  I have made myself a short script called fix.dns that copies the 
> correct version of resolv.conf in its place, and I've taken to running that 
> as root before doing anything net-related such as reading mail.
> 
> There's got to be a better way.  Who can tell me where to look to stop the 
> automatic overwriting of /etc/resolv.conf?
> 
> This started one day after I'd been looking around in the various screens of 
> linuxconf.  I thought I wasn't actually changing anything, just looking 
> around, but maybe linuxconf thought differently.
> 
> -- 
> Kendric Beachey
> ak at kc.rr.com
> 
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