timetrap wrote:
Hi, this is my first message to arch-general.
I have been helping a user on the forums who needs multiple search
domains in his /etc/resolv.conf file.
His original question was this:
"Our DHCP isolates clients to a separate subnet than the servers. As
such, unless you fully qualify the server name, you can't find the
server. A work around is to put the IP in the hosts file, but there are
just too many servers to do that with. Another option is to add the
search domain(s) in the to the end of the search line in resolv.conf,
however that file is re-written by dhcpcd, so changes are quickly lost.
Is there a way to add on search domains to what DHCP hands your system?"
I have done some research and found that the BSDs have a particularly
nice solution to this; /etc/resolv.conf.tail
Basically, it does this:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -f /etc/resolv.conf.tail ]; then
cat /etc/resolv.conf.tail >> /etc/resolv.conf
fi
I am still new to arch, and I don't know who exactly deals with this
portion of the distro. Is this something that can be made standard? It
seems like a very simple fix. Very useful too.
Here is the forum posting:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=388345#p388345
--timetrap
Something like that is totally unecessairy. That's why we have /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd. Also see man dhcpcd.
Glenn
