The state of resolv.conf

[Robert Nichols]

Jon Biggar wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>
>> I use a local DNS server that forwards queries (both forward and 
>> reverse lookups for the network I'm connecting to) down the tunnel. So 
>> /etc/resolv.conf always contains just localhost as the nameserver.
> 
> Does that handle the case well where you've got a laptop and you move 
> from one wireless network to another?  How would you get it to recognize 
> the changing DNS servers in that case?

I handle that with a dhclient-exit-hooks script that modifies named.conf
and triggers a named reload whenever dhclient sees a change in the DNS
server addresses.  It's messy, though, and if SELinux were enabled it
would complain mightily about dhclient doing naughty things.

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