RedHat DHCP overwriting resolv.conf

Matthew Hiller (matthew.hiller@yale.edu)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:56:42 -0400 (EDT)

Chad and I had an e-mail exchange about this earlier this year --
in the pre-Linux list days -- essentially, (on RH 5.1 at least), you just
need to hack up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdhcpc-done a little bit.

Comment out the following lines:

#if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf ]; then
# cp /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf /etc
#fi

Note that the file (here at laest) is actually overwritten -
there's no symlink involved.

And, if you have a vanity domain name, you just need to add some
lines to the end of the file to be sure it's set correctly, which'll be
something along the lines of:

export HOSTNAME=foo.br.yale.edu
hostname foo.br.yale.edu

Matt, who actually hard-codes his IP address so that booting takes less
time on those rare occasions when he ever does reboot nowadays