Thanks for all the information and advice. Unfortunately, Carlos' comment about dsl modems applies in my situation: an Actiontec modem from Qwest. So attempts to change its dhcp behavior will not bear fruit. My use of resolvconf is a sensible solution to a less-than-perfect state of affairs. Mike's suggestions seem a better solution, and I will study those, but until then, resolvconf is my ticket to functioning. (To settle the question of what this modem can/cannot do, from Actiontec I received: "The PK5000 itself is NOT a DNS server or redirection device. There is no programming in fact to do a DNS redirection internally. It cannot do that at all.")
With regard to the /etc/resolv.conf file, it is a link to etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, which is maintained by resolvconf. Now, to get to the unanswered questions in my post: Why does the presence of "nameserver 192.168.0.1" in resolv.conf not break dns searches occasionally? Should I attempt to clean up this file? If I should, how might that be done? Since a dhcp client in not now running on my machine, the bogus entries, once gone, should stay gone. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
