Client not creating resolv.conf

[Thiemo Seufer]

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?

I have the very same problem with debian testing i386 using dhcp2.
I did an ugly hack to FAI's subroutines to work around it.


Thiemo