[arch-general] /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolc.conf.tail

[timetrap]

Alright, I guess my formatting was a little off; here is a new patch, this
one works. :-)

Any comments?



On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:32 AM, timetrap <timetrap at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is an experimental patch for /sbin/dhclient-script, this will add the
> /etc/resolv.conf.tail concatenation to dhclient.
>
> Would somebody else try this out?
>
> back up your /sbin/dhclient-script before running this, or course.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM, timetrap <timetrap at gmail.com> 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
>
>
>
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