Brett Hutley's Blog » Linux http://www.bretthutley.com Home on the Digital Range Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:55:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 dhclient and resolv.conf http://www.bretthutley.com/2009/09/15/dhclient-and-resolv-conf/ http://www.bretthutley.com/2009/09/15/dhclient-and-resolv-conf/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:18:21 +0000 brett http://www.bretthutley.com/?p=208 For some reason, when I get onto a client's network and run /sbin/dhclient on my hacked-together-linux notebook, dhclient gets an IP address via DHCP, but doesn't update my /etc/resolv.conf with the local name servers, so names don't get resolved using DNS.

I haven't figured out a fix for this yet, but a temporary work-around is to have a look at the lease in the /var/state/dhcp/dhclient.leases file. You should see a line like "option domain-name-servers 192.168.94.49;". Just put that IP address in the /etc/resolv.conf file (ie "nameserver 192.168.94.49").

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