Re: NM /etc/resolv.conf search

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Grant Williamson wrote:

> Hi,
> whats the way to customize the "search" list for host-name lookup in 
> /etc/resolv.conf when using Networkmanager.
> i.e. if a dhcp server does not provide this information how I can customize 
> so everytime I bring up a device it will be present.
>
> I used to use something like ...
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> new_domain_name="${new_domain_name} home.com"

Just an aside: Are you using "home.com" for your home network?  If so, you 
might want to use something else.  home.com is a real domain.

I just use localdomain for my home LAN domain, as it is never a registered 
domain name and requests for it should never be routed to the Internet 
anyway.

> dhclient-script would then prepend this, how should this be done(system wide) 
> using RHEL5 beta2 and NetworkManager?

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