[ale] Debian erasing resolv.conf

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 19 07:58:03 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:40 -0400, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On 07/19/2005 07:34 am, Jim Popovitch scratched his head, bit his pencil and 
> wrote:
> > One more passing thought on this....
> >
> > Are you using static settings in /etc/resolv.conf?  If so, check to see
> > if dhclient (DHCP) is running.  If you need dhclient to pull an IP from
> > your provider, then edit /etc/dhclient.conf and force it to use your
> > static nameservers rather than updating them.
> >
> That's it. I don't need dhclient since this is an inside computer. Now why did 
> apt-get install the damn thing?

:-) Apt-get is both a friend and an enemy.

-Jim P.







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