On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27 AM, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hello list! >> >> for some wireless access points, I want to get an IP via DHCP but not >> use the provided DNS-server (I use an openvpn setup with its own DNS >> server, domain name, etc.). >> >> In /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.2-r1/net.example it reads: >> # Setting name/domain server causes /etc/resolv.conf to be overwritten >> # Note that if DHCP is used, and you want this to take precedence then >> # please put -R in your dhcpcd options >> >> But dhcpcd does not seem to have a -R option. It does have a --static >> option, though. While this is good enough for simply setting the DNS >> server, it does not seem to allow specifying domain names or >> search-domains (at least it is not shown in the man-page). >> >> Please tell me what the proper way is and whether the mention of "-R" is >> a documentation bug. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Florian Philipp > > from the man page, this seems to do what you want > (never tried, i use dhclient and its /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf): > > -C, --nohook script > Don't run this hook script. Matches full name, or prefixed with > 2 numbers optionally ending with .sh. > > So to stop dhcpcd from touching your DNS or MTU settings you > would do:- > dhcpcd -C resolv.conf -C mtu eth0 > > > yoyo > >
I use the google dns servers so I created a /etc/resolv.conf file and set the i attribute on it: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf that way it can't be removed or overwritten and you won't have that problem no matter what dhcp client you are using
