[Cialug] Network slowness

Colin Burnett cmlburnett at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 12:07:14 CST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Aren't the DNS settings supplied by DHCP?  If I go into Desktop/Administration/Networking and attempt to change the DNS settings they get set back to what they are originally.

The -R flag to dhcpcd used to prevent it from updating resolv.conf but
that seems to no longer be there (in 4.0.2, maybe that was under 3.x).
 Looks like 4.x wants `-C resolv.conf` to disable that.

So, yes, they generally are updated by DHCP but you can disable that
in some fashion.


Colin


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