On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:24 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:54 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:02 +0000 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > That seems to be working for the moment, but there's an element of magic > > > > in it that makes me nervous. The default named.conf file is set up as a > > > > simple cacheing nameserver for local queries, but where does named do > > > > its recursive lookups if not from the DHCP service? > > > > > > If you want to add the name servers specified by DHCP to lookups, > > > then you don't want your resolv.conf file to be unmodified, > > > instead you want NM to modify it "correctly", like by > > > leaving 127.0.0.1 as one nameserver and adding additional > > > nameservers. <sarcasm> How to get NM to do this is no doubt described > > > fully in the extensive NetworkManager documentation. </sarcasm> > > > > Quite. > > > > > With bind configured as a cacheing server, there is usually > > > a "forwarders" section in named.conf that points to the DNS > > > servers it should look at. > > > > There isn't. This is the default, unmodified named.conf. > > > > I've now rebooted to check, and /etc/resolv.conf has again been > > overwritten by NM, despite the PEERDNS=no line in the ifcfg file, i.e. > > it has reverted to what it was. NM seems to be calling dhclient with its > > own private config file, the whereabouts of which are non-obvious. > > You might want to take this question to the NetworkManager list at > gnome.org. The developers hang out there--if it's a bug, they'd > probably like to know about it. If it's by design, they can probably > explain it. I may do that. However I'm still not able to say it's a bug. I can't believe that no-one has ever tried to do this before as it's so obvious, so I was hoping simply to learn the Right Way To Do It. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
