From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 20:22:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3628916A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:22:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0538243D48 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:22:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE365E16; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:22:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68940-10; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:22:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-69-6.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.6]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADAA5D64; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:22:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42B1DFF7.3000003@mac.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:24:23 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20050616185053.GA57490@skytracker.ca> <42B1D1AA.9080508@mac.com> <20050616194046.GA77362@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050616194046.GA77362@skytracker.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:22:22 -0000 David Banning wrote: >> DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly. It's likely that you >> could release and renew your lease ("dhclient -r", maybe?) and cause it to >> get new DNS info if the old values are no longer working. > > Here may be the answer. I think of DHCP of being a server thing only, > to win boxes. I hadn't considered using dhclient on the freebsd host. > I will look into this. It sounds like the answer. > > Thanks - You're welcome. >> "Trawn-nah?" > > spoken like a true native - :-) [ If we've mystified anyone, people actually from Toronto use only two syllables. Although I'm not from there, actually, I was born in a place called "Wooster" which is spelled "Worchester", so I've needed to pay attention to this issue from early on. ] -- -Chuck