[GRLUG] COMCAST and TERRIBLE DNS

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:05:10PM -0500, Ron Lauzon wrote:
> Bill Creswell wrote:
> > Do you mean you are changin the DNS servers on your router?
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> The above file contains the DNS servers of your system.  In my case, it 
> gets refreshed every hour or so.
> I have a /etc/resolv.conf.ron file out there and when I notice that my 
> DNS is resolving slowly, I just copy it over /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> But you can change it in the router if you want.  I can also set my 
> system to not get DNS information from the DHCP request and instead use 
> the servers that I tell it to.

Google and man pages notwithstanding, how, pray tell, does one configure one's
machine to use preconfigured DNS and not the info from one's DHCP server?  I
would love to do this...
-- 
john-thomas
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