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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:04:13 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        freebsd hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Resolv.conf question
Message-ID:  <19991217120413.D76255@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <385993A9.55086450@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from Jim Durham on Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:36:41PM -0500
References:  <385993A9.55086450@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>

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On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:36:41PM -0500, Jim Durham wrote:
> I posted this to -questions, but didn't really
> get any answer that seemed to fit, so I thought
> I would ask here.
> 
> On a 3.3-RELEASE box, not realizing at first that
> I didn't need an entry for the local nameserver, I
> had it's IP in as the first line in resolv.conf, followed
> by two more nameservers on the next two lines.
> 
> Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the
> first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this
> because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily
> runs. I put it back every day, and the next day, it was gone again.
> 
> I hunted quite a while in the scripts, but couldn't
> figure out what was doing this?
> 
> Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying
> resolv.conf? Is this a security feature?
> 
Could be ppp(8).

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