[Sunhelp] Roadrunner and private network DNS

David Rouse cn1407 at coastalnet.com
Sun Sep 24 17:09:34 CDT 2000


On 9/24/00 at 5:01 PM, dougmc at frenzy.com (Doug McLaren) wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:28:00PM -0400, David Rouse wrote:

>The AUP's (at least in Austin) are a mess.

Not to bad here in NC. They seem mostly concerned about hate speech,
'hacking' and running a web server.

>| -- it has to be connected to a computer.
>
>But not a `server'.  And what is a Unix box if not a server?

If it comes to that, I'm not providing any services to the outside world.

>
>The AUPs suck.

Well, you do give up some civil liberties ...

>
>The dhcpc daemons tend to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf with the DHCP
>provided data.  There may be a flag/option to dhcpcd to prevent this.
>Check it's man page.
>
>If that fails, you can create an `after script' that's run after you
>get an IP.  Make the after script copy the correct /etc/resolv.conf
>over the one just generated by dhcpcd.
>
>Another option is to make the /etc/resolv.conf an immutable file.
>Solaris does support this, right?  (I can't remember.)

I'll give the suggestions a try, thanks.

-- 
drouse









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