Re: NetworkManager

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:40 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > 
> > It should be optional - I can't use it for that reason. It needs to
> > use
> > the nameserver specified by the dhcp server or I can't use it.
> > 
> 
> Won't the local caching name server look to that DHCP provided DNS
> server for "upstream" dns info?

Exactly, NetworkManager gets the DNS server addresses via DHCP, then writes them 
to the caching-nameserver's config file.  So your local machine always talks to 
127.0.0.1, but the caching-nameserver talks to yhe real DNS servers.

Dan

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