Changeset 82c4aa0 for BOOK/network/common

Timestamp:

Mar 2, 2009, 11:33:23 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>

Branches:

clfs-1.2, clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

0d1a5ef6

Parents:

8d157dfa

Message:

Added note about DHCP configuration to the resolv.conf page.

File:

• BOOK/network/common/resolv.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/network/common/resolv.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
     best achieved by placing the IP address of the DNS server, available
     from the ISP or network administrator, into
-    <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. Create the file by running the
-    following:</para>
+    <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. If atleast one of your network
+    interfaces is going to be configured by DHCP then you may not need to
+    create this file. By default DHCPCD will overwrite this file when it gets
+    a new lease from the DHCP server. If you wish to manually configure your
+    network interfaces or manually set your DNS using DHCP then create the
+    file by running the following:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/resolv.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"