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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:00 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
Cc:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Automated generation of /etc/resolv.conf from the rc.d script 
Message-ID:  <920.1208964540@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:36:17 %2B0400." <%2BrkPaEJgDwWM%2BWmNdLneOfPN6Ps@sTlCVUsSEVReKIVdz1gJKNXWeKE> 

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In message <+rkPaEJgDwWM+WmNdLneOfPN6Ps@sTlCVUsSEVReKIVdz1gJKNXWeKE>, Eygene Ry
abinkin writes:

>> I think this is a much needed facility.  Some ISP's block DNS queries
>> from private customers to force them to use the ISP's DNS and
>> not having this forces a cumbersome manual configuration.
>
>Hmm, my patch does not change anything in the respect to the ISP's
>DNS servers: resolv.conf or BIND will use the nameservers given by
>DHCP or manually configured via /etc/rc.conf.

That's the point: You get the DNS server IPs from your ISP using
DHCP :-)

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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