From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 17:07:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA24845 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:07:48 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA24836 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:07:44 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA277078457; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:07:37 -0800 Message-Id: <199502100107.AA277078457@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA15122; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:06:28 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: DNS selection at user level To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:06:28 EDT X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Just wonder if there is an environment variable/way for selecting default DNS server at user level without having to update /etc/resolv.conf ? Preferably something that can manipulate a local workstation to resolve host and domain names at run-time control, including order of the DNS servers to be queried etc. Thanks. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)