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Old 11-05-2004
James Knott
 
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Default Re: resolve.conf clobbered by DHCP

Nathan Spear wrote:

> I am managing a network consisting of Windows and Linux clients. We
> have three dns suffixes that need to be used during name resolution.
> For the Microsoft clients using Group Policy works great. The problem
> I am having is with the Linux clients. Every time a machine gets a
> new DHCP lease the resolve.conf gets clobbered, requiring the user to
> edit the file again to add the proper dns suffixes.
>
> Does anyone know a way around this? Is there a way to prevent a
> Microsoft DHCP server from overwriting a Linux resolve.conf file?


When setting up the NIC in Yast, there's an option to update name servers
etc., via dhcp. Is that turned off?

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