udhcp and busybox

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 08:55:38 UTC 2006


Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> So you have two options - either
>>> delete the current gateway first or don't add another gateway.  I
>>> agree, using the udhcp nameservers is not as important.
>> No, if it supplies one I'll happily modify /etc/resolv.conf.  I can see a
>> command line option telling it not to do that, though.
> 
> I'm just a user, but I'm strongly against dhcp clients overwriting
> system config files by default. Just because all the broken mainstream
> ones do it doesn't mean its a good idea.

I'm just curious, because I'm always been irritated about dhcp clients
modifying the /etc/resolv.conf file. Do you have any better suggestions
how a dhcp client should set the nameservers without modifying
/etc/resolv.conf?





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