dhclient Does Not Set /etc/resolv.conf

I'm running Red Hat 9 and my box acquires a DHCP address, but my
/etc/resolv.conf is not created/updated... I've checked the man page
for /etc/dhclient.conf settings, but I don't think I got it right. This
is what I have in /etc/dhclient.conf:

interface "eth0" {
# I put the following two lines in to see if they would be entered
# into /etc/resolv.conf. They aren't :( .
supersede domain-name "test.com";
supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.255.1;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
# Is the following line needed?
# script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
}

Any ideas on how to get /etc/resolv.conf to get the name servers?

Hank Kingwood typed:

> Any ideas on how to get /etc/resolv.conf to get the name servers?

are you, by chance, starting/stopping network services _after_ you changed
this?

are you running the 'dhclient' command?
what are you doing to try to get your changes noticed by /etc/resolv.conf?

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johnny bobby bee wrote:
> Hank Kingwood typed:
>
>>Any ideas on how to get /etc/resolv.conf to get the name servers?
>
> are you, by chance, starting/stopping network services _after_ you changed
> this?

No. As root I run "dhclient eth0", I get an IP address, but
/etc/resolv.conf does not get updated... Just for grins I did "touch
/etc/resolv.conf;dhclient" and /etc/resolv.conf remains at zero bytes...

> are you running the 'dhclient' command?

Yes.

> what are you doing to try to get your changes noticed by /etc/resolv.conf?

I thought running "dhclient" with no /etc/dhclient.conf would update
/etc/resolv.conf, but that didn't work on my system. Then I created
/etc/dhclient.conf and I'm still not getting any resolv.conf update...

Googling returned previous bugs in dhclient. I'm running
dhclient-3.0pl2-6.16. So, I thought I could get either the code or RPM
from http://www.isc.org/, but I can't find "dhclient". DHCP is there,
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-3.0.1rc12.tar.gz.

Is dhclient included in dhcp-3.0.1rc12.tar.gz?

Any recommendations on either compiling dhcp-3.0.1rc12.tar.gz? Anyone
know where I can find the RPM for this? I can't find it at rpmfind.net...

Thanks.

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 06:34:39 GMT, Hank Kingwood <hank@bogusaddress.xyz>
wrote:

>I'm running Red Hat 9 and my box acquires a DHCP address, but my
>/etc/resolv.conf is not created/updated... I've checked the man page
>for /etc/dhclient.conf settings, but I don't think I got it right. This
>is what I have in /etc/dhclient.conf:
>
>interface "eth0" {
># I put the following two lines in to see if they would be entered
># into /etc/resolv.conf. They aren't :( .
> supersede domain-name "test.com";
> supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.255.1;
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
> require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
># Is the following line needed?
># script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
>}
>
>Any ideas on how to get /etc/resolv.conf to get the name servers?

Actually, in most cases you do not need an /etc/dhclient.conf.

Check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(x) and see if you
have "PEERDNS=yes".


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Rich Piotrowski wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 06:34:39 GMT, Hank Kingwood <hank@bogusaddress.xyz>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm running Red Hat 9 and my box acquires a DHCP address, but my
>>/etc/resolv.conf is not created/updated... I've checked the man page
....

>>Any ideas on how to get /etc/resolv.conf to get the name servers?
>
> Actually, in most cases you do not need an /etc/dhclient.conf.
>
> Check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(x) and see if you
> have "PEERDNS=yes".

Ahhh. That was it! I had "PEERDNS=no". Much thanks!