Perhaps this will help: from an archive search to:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&m=102331570011431&w=2 -------------------------- Re: dhcpd overwriting resolve.conf > Thought that you may have been able to set this with peerdns=no in the > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX Try this with all uppercase: PEERDNS=no ----------------------------- Regards, Mike Klinke On Saturday 15 March 2003 17:44, John Smith wrote: > I have a redhat 8.0 box as a gateway/firewall for a home network > using iptables. I have two NICs and eth0 which is the cable internet > connection is resolved through DHCP from the ISP. I am having a > recurring problem with the inability to resolve host names. I enter a > DNS address into the resolv.conf file on the gateway as root and > everything works fine for a while. However, within a few minutes the > browser will give an error stating that the host name could not be > resolved and upon checking the resolv.conf file, the DNS that I > entered will no longer be listed. If I reenter the DNS address > everything works fine again...until the next error. My ISP does not > provide support for any OS other than Windows and they absolutely > refuse to provide their DNS address. They simply state that > everything is done through DHCP so that I do not need the DNS > address. Consequently, I enable DHCP through eth0 but in my > resolv.conf file, I am using a DNS from another ISP. Is this the > source of my problem or can anyone tell me what is going on? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
