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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:52:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To:        Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X and DHCP
Message-ID:  <200111131652.fADGqWf35076@ambrisko.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111122158010.18292-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu>

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Alexey Koptsevich writes:
| Is there a way to have X up and running when reconnecting to different ISP 
| and changing net parameters with dhclient? Now it gets stuck when hostname 
| is changed.

I just run my own DNS server on my laptop since I have several machines
real and virtual run off it so I need a DNS to manage that.  As part
of my dhclient-exit-script I modify my forwarder in my named.conf
file and then make /etc/resolv.conf point to localhost.  Worked for
years and I use xdm in /etc/ttys.  Also if you can contact the root name
servers you don't _really_ need the forwarder set up unless you need
local network information.

I set my hostname fixed and not fully qualified.  It's nice when DDNS
works with DHCP requests so names just work when you roam in and out
of networks.

I aslo enable and disable various services like amd, nis etc depending
on where I am automatically.  I just want to do work and let my computer
figure out how to let me do that.

Doug A.

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