source: BOOK/network/common/resolv.xml@ 8000b26

clfs-3.0.0-systemd clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit systemd sysvinit
Last change on this file since 8000b26 was 05d3e34, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 11 years ago

Update some text in the resolv.conf page.

  • Property mode set to 100644
File size: 2.3 KB
Line 
1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-network-resolv">
9 <?dbhtml filename="resolv.html"?>
10
11 <title>Creating the /etc/resolv.conf File</title>
12
13 <sect2 id="resolv.conf">
14 <title>Creating the /etc/resolv.conf File</title>
15
16 <indexterm zone="resolv.conf">
17 <primary sortas="e-/etc/resolv.conf">/etc/resolv.conf</primary>
18 </indexterm>
19
20 <para>If the system is going to be connected to the Internet, it will
21 need some means of Domain Name Service (DNS) name resolution to
22 resolve Internet domain names to IP addresses, and vice versa. This is
23 best achieved by placing the IP address of the DNS server, available
24 from the ISP or network administrator, into
25 <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. If at least one of your network
26 interfaces is going to be configured by DHCP then you may not need to
27 create this file. By default DHCPCD will overwrite this file when it gets
28 a new lease from the DHCP server. If you wish to manually configure your
29 network interfaces or manually set your DNS using DHCP then create the
30 file by running the following:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/resolv.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
33<literal># Begin /etc/resolv.conf
34
35domain <replaceable>[Your Domain Name]</replaceable>
36nameserver <replaceable>[IP address of your primary nameserver]</replaceable>
37nameserver <replaceable>[IP address of your secondary nameserver]</replaceable>
38
39# End /etc/resolv.conf</literal>
40EOF</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para>The <replaceable>domain</replaceable> statement can be omitted or
43 replaced with a <replaceable>search</replaceable> statement. See the man
44 page for resolv.conf for more details.</para>
45
46 <para>Replace <replaceable>[IP address of the nameserver]</replaceable>
47 with the IP address of the DNS most appropriate for the setup. There will
48 often be more than one entry (requirements demand secondary servers for
49 fallback capability). If you only need or want one DNS server, remove the
50 second <emphasis>nameserver</emphasis> line from the file. The IP address
51 may also be a router on the local network.</para>
52
53 </sect2>
54
55</sect1>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.