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[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Thursday, June 17, 2004 02:30 pm, crash 3m wrote:

> manually adding caching dns servers that are close in proximity to
> /etc/resolv.conf might fix it, if the change disappears you can chattr
> +i /etc/resolv.conf to keep your dhcp client (and just about anything
> else) from modifying the file.

It would appear that Curt's actual problem is that he is not getting his 
default gateway from the DHCP server (his router).  If he has not set his 
router to provide this information, this is expected behavior.  

It might be argued that the router should default to providing it's own 
(internal) address as the gateway, but they may not have been bright enough 
to assume that.  The router should also grab the DNS info it _receives_ from 
the _external_ DHCP host (RoadRunner) and forward that as the DNS settings 
for it's clients, but again, there may be a reason it's not doing that.

In any case, the thing to do is to pry into the router's DHCP Host settings 
and have it provide the information to the various clients.  This is the real 
purpose for Distributed Host Configuration Protocol, not the ability to 
randomize dynamically allocated IP addresses.

It's also nearly always a good idea to check for Firmware Updates for your 
router.  These solve little things like serious disfunctions and bad security 
holes.