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: Re: LUG: Kerberos Ports
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: Jack Neely <jjneely@pams.ncsu.[redacted]>
Date
: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:58:42 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:43:54AM -0500, John Berninger wrote:
> Jack Neely wrote:
>
> >Cast aside those evil DNS servers!! Are you on resnet? The DNS servers
> >they seem to hand out via DHCP are not cool.
> >
> >Edit /etc/resolv.conf and use 152.1.1.206 and 152.1.1.161. Then chattr
> >+i /etc/resolv.conf which is an evil hack to keep the DHCP daemons from
> >overwriting your DNS configuration. You should be able to lookup
> >servers now. More importantly you should be able to run "hes <userid>"
> >and get an answer. If hesiod doesn't resovle propperly that would keep
> >you from being able to log in and it is an extension of the DNS service.
> >
> >Jack
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Cast aside that evil chattr command! Put "PEERDNS=no" in your interface
> config file instead (e.g. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) -
> that's the "proper" way to ensure you don't get told to use "bad" DNS
> servers by a DHCP server. Using that chattr command could lead to great
> annoyance if you ever want to take the machine elsewhere and you've
> forgotten about the chattr'd file.
>
> --
> John
So THAT's the magic! :-)
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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Campus Linux Services Project Lead
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
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