Re: DNS Caching and resolv.conf

["Nathaniel R. Ben-Attar" <benattar gmail com>]

I figured out how to force the authorative servers to NM's bind
config.  I edited /usr/share/NetworkManager/named.conf and changed the
line
forwarders { @@FORWARDERS@@  };
to
forwarders { @@FORWARDERS@@  10.50.255.4; 10.50.255.3; 10.10.0.1;
216.139.253.3; };
I needed to make sure there were two spaces after the @@FORWARDERS@@
or it failed to pull my dns servers from dhcp.  It would be nice to
see the addition of a simply dialog into the GUI to add these without
having to edit configuration files for new users.

Now I only have one remaining issue and that is how to get NM to pass
a custom search string to resolv.conf and save me the hassle of typing
the full domain name for my most commonly used hosts.




On 12/15/05, Nathaniel R. Ben-Attar <benattar gmail com> wrote:
> I just installed NM on my Ubuntu laptop and love it but have two issues.
>
> 1.) Most important.  I have thusfar been using djbdns for caching a
> private TLD on the internal network at work.  I connect to the network
> via openvpn and under djbdns all I've had to do was create a textfile
> containing the authorative nameservers for each TLD on the network.
> How do I do this under network-manager's BIND implimentation since it
> seems to be adamant about overriding and killing my djbdns?  Or better
> yet, can I just kill off BIND and use what works for me?
>
> 2.) Ubuntu uses dhclient and I've had a custom search path dynamicly
> added to resolv.conf by dhclient to make resolving hosts I use
> regularly easier.  Judging by the resolv.conf that NM creates I can
> saely assume that it does NOT use dhclient and therefor I would like
> to know how to specify a search line to be inserted into resolv.conf
>
> --
> -Nathan R. Ben-Attar
> benattar gmail com
>


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-Nathan R. Ben-Attar
benattar gmail com