DNS server/client software keeps resetting

James Scott Boorn jboorn at seatab.com
Wed Jun 14 18:55:12 UTC 2000


Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and make sure you have
PEERDNS="no" and not PEERDNS="yes".  If you did not use the RedHat tools
be sure to check that you are not using the 'usepeerdns' pppd option.

> Ron Bramblett wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I have a small problem. Everyday the first thing that I must do is to
> > edit my /etc/resolv.conf file and point my DNS back to my in-house
> > (Balsa) DNS server.
> >
> > I have intalled RedHat Linux 6.2 on a Gateway 2000 Pentium 180 machine.
> > I have had dns setup on this machine for quite some time. This problem
> > did not start happening until I installed RedHat 6.2 on it. Every day my
> >
> > first job is to go into the /etc/resolv.conf file and set the
> > DNS pointer back to my BALSA address. Every day about midnight I guess
> > the resolv.conf file keeps going back to pointing back to my ISP DNS
> > server, (instead of staying put as my in-house DNS Server). How do I get
> >
> > it to stay permanently??
> >
> > I have a 56k modem that I use to connect to the internet. It is always
> > on. I use PPP to connect. I have no other routes out, except I have a
> > NIC which will connect to other computers in our network.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Ron Bramblett
> > Systems Administrator
> > The Fuller Brush Company
> 
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