> dhcp retruns the address of a couple of flakey name servers, I believe that they
> are just used as a bootstrap kind of thing. You have to have their real name
> server in there also. I mannaged this by editing the file:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
>
> ifdhcpc-done: echo "nameserver 204.174.64.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf
> ifdhcpc-done: echo "nameserver 204.174.65.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> This is not the best fix, but I don't have time right now. The problem is that
> when your IP expires and dhcpc retrieves the new one it overwrites
> /etc/resolv.conf again. I don't think that ifdhcpc-done get's called again.
> Another thing. Don't set up eth0 to be set up at boot time (with the control
> panel). There seems to be an error in the redhat scripts. They try to start it
> twice, and it fails the second time. I just added a line
>
I've been thinking of going onto ADSL myself when I move out of residence.
But something you said up there has me wondering about it. Normally DHCP
assigns the same address to the same host if the lease is still valid, and
no-one else has stolen the IP address. What you've said up there is that
the DHCP that ADSL assigns a different IP address each time the dhcp
client queries for a renewal on the lease. Is this what you meant?
It would be a tad inconvient if you have 5 or 6 TCP connections open and
your IP address changes.