<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>What device is giving out DHCP addresses? That device writes to resolv.conf when your computer requests and IP. <br><br><br><div>- eah</div></div><div><br>On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I changed my nameserver entries<div>in /etc/resolv.conf to use Google's.</div><div>Much faster.</div><div><br></div><div>But something keeps changing it</div><div>back to Comcast's entries. Often.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I can see that there are resolv.conf</div><div>entries in several places, including</div><div>/var/lib/dhcpcd and /var/lib/wicd. </div><div><br></div><div>Not what I want.</div><div><br></div><div>Can someone provide a short word</div>
<div>salad about how the resolv.conf entry</div><div>in /etc/ is managed, and suggest how</div><div>I go about overriding the changes?</div><div><br></div><div>I can always tell when my changes are</div><div>overwritten, because things slow down.</div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
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