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Neil Winchurst wrote: > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:52:57 +0000 > Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> DHCP will supply DNS settings. >> >> Personally if it is giving you grief I'd fix the settings supplied by DHCP. > > So how do I do that? Where are the network setting coming from? Probably the router configuration. >> However if you are sure you want to override the DHCP settings you need >> either to disable DHCP entirely on that box, or to find the active dhcp >> client config and configure the settings in that. >> >> In Debian this is /etc/dhclient.conf but I think Ubuntu has moved it >> into /etc/dhcp3/ or some such. For most options you have "prepend", >> "supersede" or "append", the manual page is good ;) >> > I have looked at /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf but it appears to be almost > entirely commented out. Sounds right -- it will be mostly commented out, as you don't want it to override the DHCP settings normally. >> Me I disable DHCP for home use, if I don't need it, but for bigger > So how do I do that? Uninstall the DHCP client package is the usual method, then edit the /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf to have what one wants (or use a GUI to set them if your distro has one).
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