Can bind read resolv.conf for forwarders?

[Cricket Liu]

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 12:46  PM, Richard Miller wrote:

> A quick question I cannot find an answer to.  I'm running RH Linux 7.1 
> and
> bind 9.2.1 as a caching only nameserver on a small home network.  I 
> recently
> go a DSL connection and am using rp-pppoe.  My isp (Covad/ATT) 
> occasionally
> assigns new name servers when my connection restarts.  RP-PPPOE then
> rewrites my resolv.conf and all works fine, EXCEPT now my forwarders 
> listed
> in named.conf are incorrect and this seems to cause a noticeable delay 
> in
> DNS resolution.  I'm not a Linux guru capable of writing shell scripts 
> to
> read the resolv file and update my bind configuration.  Just wondering 
> if
> there is an easy fix to this.

BIND doesn't have any way of populating the forwarders configuration
with the name servers from resolv.conf.

cricket

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