[Klug-general] dns

[Chris Roberts]

Of course, if you are using DHCP from your router - you can tell it
> what name servers to use and that might be what it dishes out with the
> leases.  Then again, it depends how the router is set up - it might try to
> give out it's own IP as the DNS server, and proxy all requests.
>
> Another thing to check is what's in /etc/nsswitch.conf under hosts: - this
> tells you what order names are resolved in (e.g. /etc/hosts, DNS
> resolv.conf, etc).
>
> Also, if you've got resolvconf installed, you may want to check it's
> settings,That will normally write to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf, which is
> symlinked to /etc/resolv.conf
>
>
>
> On 29 January 2013 13:10, Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29/01/13 12:52, james morris wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using dhcpcd, but again, why I chose that over dhcp who knows?
>>>
>>
>> OK, if you are not doing anything fancy in your house, then you should
>> just leave the modem / router to do its' thing and control DHCP. This means
>> that it will give you an IP address, tell you IT is the way out on to the
>> internet, and tell your operating system what name servers to use.
>>
>> In order to do this, you need a DHCP client to 'ask' a DHCP server for
>> those details. In Linux it's dhcpcd. I have it running on mine...
>>
>> paully at thinkpad ~ $ pidof dhcpcd
>> 2053
>>
>> Here is my name server file...
>> paully at thinkpad ~ $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>> nameserver 212.159.6.10
>> nameserver 212.159.6.9
>>
>> ...which just happens to be PlusNet's nameservers.
>>
>> Here is my way out onto the 'net...
>> paully at thinkpad ~ $ route -n
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
>> Iface
>> 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
>> eth0
>> 127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
>> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
>> eth0
>>
>> ...so you can see the modem / router is on the classic 192.168.0.1
>> address.
>>
>>
>>  How would I test what it's 'dishing out'?
>>>
>>
>> OK, what computers do you have where you are now?
>>
>>
>>
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