Resolv.conf problems...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <miPC58D5wagO090yn at erols.com>,
Jerry McBride <mcbrides at erols.com> wrote:
>I've got one minor problem over here I wonder if someone can lind a hand?
>
>I have named running smooth as silk doing name caching on a stand-alone system.
>The nagging problem I have is... each and every time I log into my isp, the
>/etc/resolv.conf files get's automatically updated by some mechanism. Nice, if
>you want your isp in there instead of 127.0.0.1...
>
>Anyway, does anyone know who/what is over writing resolv.conf all the time?

DHCP, probably.  The system uses this to learn its IP address, default
gateway, DNS server, etc.

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