dhcpcd is fine. But this is a patch for dhclient. Which is a totally different dhcp client.
When I installed wicd, dhclient was a dependency, if you want to use wicd, you need to use dhclient. If you want to have multiple search domains with dhclient (through wicd), you need to edit your /etc/resolv.conf and append those search domains. Rather than edit by hand, or run an external script. Why not just patch the dhclient-script? So yes, something like this SHOULD be unecessairy. But it isn't. On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > timetrap 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 >> > > Something like that is totally unecessairy. That's why we have > /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd. Also see man dhcpcd. > > Glenn > >
