Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:00:18 +0200 From: a@zeos.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did the /etc/resolv.conf appear? Message-ID: <20061217190018.GA777@host.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <45858196.40004@gmx.de> References: <20061217171732.GA2743@host.my.domain> <45858196.40004@gmx.de>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:42:46PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > a@zeos.net wrote: > > The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf > > contains the next: > > > > nameserver 82.207.67.2 > > nameserver 213.179.244.18 > > > > Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org > > or InterNIC, but of my ISP. > > > > I wonder how the system found these IP addresses? > > The entries are created by dhclient or whichever different program establishes the connection, when it receives the necessary information (your IP, gateway and the nameservers to use) from your ISP. I do not use any special DHCP client, but I use mpd(8) to connect via ADSL. I thought, mpd has created these entries. But when I temporary moved resolv.conf and restarted the computer, no resolv.conf appeared. So I steel don't know, who created resolv.conf.
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