[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Local DNS

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:37:06PM +0000, andrew gatt wrote:
> >The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-name" from the DHCP
> >server - so even if the server says "You are in foo.example.net", the
> >resolver is NOT being instructed to try appending "foo.example.net" to a
> >domain if it fails to resolve.
> >
> >Ideally, the device would allow you to specify a search domain, AND accept
> >the domain from DHCP as a second search, and add them both to resolv.conf
> >as search domains - but it doesn't.
> >  
> Yes i just added 'search mydomain' as the first line of the resolv.conf 
> and it works. Why does this fail on the 770 when all my other machines 
> are set up correctly from my DHCP server. Is this not a bug in ITOS2006 
> or have i missed something?

I personally consider it to be a bug, although I haven't reported it to
https://maemo.org/bugzilla/ yet.

> resolv.conf is not being updated at all, but looking at udhcpc.script 
> (in /etc/udhcpc) it should work, and udhcpc works fine with a similar 
> script on my linux machine with the same DHCP server.

/etc/resolv.conf is not supposed to be updated, the 770 uses resolvconf
and dnsmasq, with the desirable side effect that you do not need to
restart all running applications whenever your DNS server address
changes.  The real DNS server ends up in /tmp/resolv.conf.wlan0 (or
.ppp).

Hm, looks like dnsmasq ignores the 'search' line in
/tmp/resolv.conf.wlan0.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
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