Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:45:03 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dave.mehler@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: repeating error message from ssh
Message-ID:  <200906042145.03548.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
In-Reply-To: <F95BBB332BE140D9B744CB62556ACF3B@hades>
References:  <F6CAA47F9F4842A6B78D7E827D3C00DC@hades> <4A281447.2060103@infracaninophile.co.uk> <F95BBB332BE140D9B744CB62556ACF3B@hades>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:59:57 Dave wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running
> anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network
> unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway
> 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or dns i'd love to
> hear it, googling hasn't shown me how to change the internal domain name.
> Thanks.

If you know your ISP's nameservers, simply run a local resolver and tell 
dhclient to prepend or override the nameserver obtained from dhcp.
There's quite a few how-to's on the web on this topic.

Suggested local reading: 
man dhclient.conf
man rc.conf
/etc/defaults/rc.conf - named_ settings
/etc/namedb/named.conf

-- 
Mel



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200906042145.03548.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions>