Client not creating resolv.conf

[James S. White]

Is this a Sparc system? We have had the same problem with our Sparc-debian
systems. We just kludged a cron job to regenerate the resolv.conf.

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James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
james at gapsinc.com                   Electrical Engineer - Etc.
http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Andrew Sweger wrote:

> For some reason, my client host is not creating resolv.conf. So far, I've
> traced this to the fact $DNSSRVS is not being set. $DNSSRVS is set by
> dhclient-perl which should be mapped from the new_domain_name_servers
> variable set in the dhclient environment. I _do_ have 'option
> domain-name-servers x.x.x.x;' in my dhcpd.conf on the server.  I'm using
> the dhcp3 package as it was the only way I found to pass the fai options
> (170, etc.) to the client.
>
> A dhcpdump seems to reveal that my dhcp server is never returning the DNS
> servers (option 6) to the client, even when it's being explicitly
> requested.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
> --
> Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
>                                 things can go wrong at once.
>