Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:31:05 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Wouter Cuypers <voutah@detroit.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrong DNS numbers from DHCP server Message-ID: <20010730193105.A69807@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010730171515.BCEB79BB57@pop3.telenet-ops.be> References: <20010730171515.BCEB79BB57@pop3.telenet-ops.be>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Wouter Cuypers wrote: > Hello, > > I use FreeBSD for natd and ipfw on a 200Mhz pentium system with 2 NIC's. > My cable providers assigns the machine's outside IP using DHCP but it > also gives me the wrong DNS addresses. > I know that they are 195.130.132.17 en 195.130.132.18. But when I look > at my resolve.conf it looks like this: > > search pandora.be > nameserver 195.130.132.20 > nameserver 195.130.132.18 > > With these settings my sshd cannot reverse my internal IP's and doesn't > allow me to connect using SSH. Telnetd still works. > When I manually change resolve.conf and change the 20 to 17, then SSH > works just fine. > > Is this a problem that I should solve with my ISP or can i get a > work-around ? Yes, and yes. You probably should talk to your ISP and make sure that DHCP supply the correct settings. There is a workaround though. > Changing the permissions of the file didn't seem to work. > Is there a way to disable the DNS resolving in dhclient ? You can get dhclient to override the settings that it gets from the server. Look at the dhclient.conf(5) man page, especially the 'supersedes' option. > I can't just disable dhclient, i'm on a dynamic IP (cycle = about 3-4 > weeks). -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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