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Re: /etc/resolv.conf

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sat Feb 13 11:00:05 1999

To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: amu@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 1999 10:59:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:37:22 -0500 (EST)

Also, the install program can only hold three nameservers...  But I guess
I could add a fourth.

-derek

Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 
> 
> 	It should prepend "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to /etc/resolv.conf if it
> 	doesn't already contain 127.0.0.1.
> 
> The named-conf postinstall script can't do that, since there is no
> /etc/resolv.conf when the postinstall script gets run.
> 
> The install program could be modified to do something like that, but
> (a) that's more work and (b) it's kind of an ugly hack.
> 
> Sal.

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