[2611] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: /etc/resolv.conf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sat Feb 13 17:09:00 1999
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 1999 17:08:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: Erik Nygren's message of Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:19:23 EST
Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Maybe something that gets DOMAINNAME out of /etc/sysconfig/network
> and uses that when generating resolv.conf? (Where it would
> put in "domain MIT.EDU" if DOMAINNAME is MIT.EDU and
> it would put in "search ${DOMAINNAME} MIT.EDU" otherwise?
Unfortunately none of this is available at install time from the named
package. So, Sal, why did you remove the creation of /etc/resolv.conf
from the named package? I see one main problem with having
resolv.conf as a file -- if someone removed the athena-named-conf
package, they will lose their resolv.conf, which is the wrong thing to
happen.
In order to try to deal with the greatest number of users, I propose
that we revert back to generating the resolv.conf file from the
named-conf package, and leave off the 'domain MIT.EDU' line, just
having the nameservers.
Comments?
-derek
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