BIND changing /etc/resolv.conf

Peter Fackrell peter at nlock.com
Mon Feb 14 08:51:05 UTC 2000


Yes you are right in my /etc/ppp.conf of (OpenBSD 2.5)I had
'enable dns'on which it says will change /etc/resolv.conf
settings and has nothing to do with bind at all .

Thanks for helping me out.
Peter Fackrell.

"Henri J. Schlereth" wrote:

> Are you sure it is BIND doing this? I have seen this identical
> "feature" under RedHat 6.1 under their initscripts after version
> 4.70. The problem is there was a use-peerdns which would re-write
> /etc/resolv.conf with the DNS servers of your connection.
> In my case this was /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp.
>
> Henri J. Schlereth
> "The Geezer Geek"
>
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> The erasure of data leaves a trial.The absence of data, under
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