Setting static DNS

[Jamon Camisso]

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>  What is the trick to statically set a list of DNS servers to use when 
>> you otherwise get your IP address from a DHCP server?
> 
> Beside manually modify /etc/resolv.conf every time after obtaining IP, I 
> guess?
> 
> I believe most DHCP clients have option to run an external scripts after 
> getting the IP, the scripts can add your DNS addresses to 
> /etc/resolv.conf preceding or replacing the ones received from DHCP server.

Why not just edit /etc/resolv.conf with the dns server(s) you want, and 
remove resolvconf from your default runlevel(s)? That or chattr +i the 
file and hope it doesn't break your dhcp scripts :)

Jamon

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