nathan.spear@iovation.com (Nathan Spear) writes:

]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?

A) Put the correct resolver in the DHCP servers so they deliver the right
addresses.
b) Tell linux not to request or honour resolvers.

Either or both of the above would solve your problem.

Eg, for B
man dhcpcd
-R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file.