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dhclient and resolv.conf

For some reason, when I get onto a client’s network and run /sbin/dhclient on my hacked-together-linux notebook, dhclient gets an IP address via DHCP, but doesn’t update my /etc/resolv.conf with the local name servers, so names don’t get resolved using DNS. I haven’t figured out a fix for this yet, but a temporary work-around is [...]

15 September 2009 at 10:18 - Comments