[ILUG] Basic question on Ubuntu networking

[Conor Wynne]

On 22 Mar 2006, at 09:28, John Madden wrote:

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> On (22/03/06 09:13), Kevin Philp didst pronounce:
>> /etc/resolv.conf manually thenat reboot it gets overwritten -
>> where do I fill in nameserver information in Ubuntu?
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> If you're using dhcpd, try the following in /etc/dhcpd.conf
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> option domain-name-servers IP1, IP2;

Exactly John, but he will need a dhcp server for that - I cannot  
imagine a soho router doing that.
Failing that, you could always add a script to /etc/rc.local which  
will simply echo that info into resolv.conf

The setup of this via dhcpd is trivial. Why not let a server hand out  
this info?

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> Chat ya later,
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> John.

regards
Conor.