Re: [LUG] apt ate my resolv.conf

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Philip Hudson wrote:

> On 16 May, 2011, at 9:44 pm, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> > At home I run a recursive resolver
>
> called: ...

The one I use is called the Barkley Internet Name Daemon... akaa bind aka 
named.

  apt-get install bind9

will get it going.

Then you edit /etc/resolv.conf to look like:

  nameserver 127.0.0.1

You may also wish to use googles nameservers. These are 8.8.8.8 and 
8.8.4.4. I tend to use them in customer routers (to give out via DHCP) as 
they're often better than the resolvers inside the routers themselves...

Gordon


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