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jlady
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 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: DHCP with fixed DNS |
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I'm having a perplexing problem with DHCP with gentoo on a x86 box. I dual boot between Windows 2000 and Gentoo. Qwest is my ISP. We also have a Macintosh with OS X on the network. Everything worked fine until a few weeks ago when the Mac could no longer access the network. I fixed the problem by manually setting the DNS on it instead of using whatever the default was from the DHCP transaction.
Windows 2000 continues to work fine, but now, after resetting the modem, Gentoo seems to have the same problem that the Mac was having. I tried to use the same fix by putting the following in /etc/conf.d/net
dns_servers_eth0="205.171.3.65 205.171.2.65"
but that doesn't seem to work. How do I override the default dns? I know this should be Qwest's problem, but I'm weary of dealing with tech support, and it will be easier to convince them that it is their problem if I can make this work.
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schachti
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:32 am Post subject: Re: DHCP with fixed DNS |
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| jlady wrote: | | How do I override the default dns? |
Add the server to /etc/resolv.conf (nameserver IP_OF_THE_SERVER) and add
to /etc/conf.d/net.
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jlady
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| Thanks! That solved the problem. |
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