From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 19:03:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6830D16A416 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from jan.ukrtel.net (jan.ukrtel.net [195.5.6.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1B043CB9 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:03:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from 72-25-207-82.pool.ukrtel.net ([82.207.25.72] helo=host.my.domain) by jan.ukrtel.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gw1Ht-0000mZ-M9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:03:06 +0200 Received: from host.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host.my.domain (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBHJ2w7e000929 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:02:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: (from elisej@localhost) by host.my.domain (8.13.7/8.13.6/Submit) id kBHIN08P000658 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:23:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:23:00 +0200 From: a@zeos.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061217182300.GA570@host.my.domain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061217171732.GA2743@host.my.domain> <45858196.40004@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45858196.40004@gmx.de> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: How did the /etc/resolv.conf appear? 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: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:03:17 -0000 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.