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From: "Darío Mariani" <mariani.dario@gmail.com>
To: gerardo juarez-mondragon <gjuarezmondragon@metacrawler.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DNS caching nameserver problem
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:24:04 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84bd26ef050530112422641001@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB52BD037A7380648A77EE2C104224A2@gjuarezmondragon.metacrawler.com>

  Yes, the problem is that your DHCP client is overwriting the
resolv.conf file. How to avoid this, as far as I know, is
distribuition specific. What distribution do you have?

         Darío

On 5/30/05, gerardo juarez-mondragon <gjuarezmondragon@metacrawler.com> wrote:
> I have a DNS caching server that works ok until
> it is rebooted. When this happens it restarts
> normally, except the /etc/resolv.conf file is
> altered and the server stops serving names. (The
> line 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' is missing and other
> namservers appear instead).
> 
> The server obtains an address through DHCP and my
> theory is that the DHCP server is providing it
> with DNS servers as well, which it substitutes
> when it probably shouldn't.
> 
> I have tried a horrible patch in rc.local,
> stopping named, overwriting resolv.conf with a
> correct copy and restarting, but
> editing the file and restarting 'named' does not
> seem to work 100% of the time, requiring
> sometimes one or two restarts of the service to
> make it serve names for the internal hosts.
> 
> What do you think is the problem?
> Is there a workaround?
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> Gerardo
> 
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-30 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-30 17:51 DNS caching nameserver problem gerardo juarez-mondragon
2005-05-30 18:24 ` Darío Mariani [this message]
2005-05-31  2:05   ` Andrew Schulman

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