dhclient.conf is being ignored

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Dec 1 09:01:25 PST 2005


On 2005-12-01 10:48, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring"
> dhclient.conf(5).
> 
> On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper
> location with the option modifiers I want.  However, everytime dhclient
> negotiates a new lease, I get my ISP's values in resolv.conf(5) and not
> my over-rides.
> 
> Here's the relevent part of rc.conf(5):
> 
> # grep ifconfig /etc/rc.conf
> ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 172.16.1.1  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> and my dhclient.conf file:
> 
> # cat /etc/dhclient.conf
> interface "fxp0" {
>         supersede domain mydomain.com
>         supersede domain-name-servers 172.16.1.17, 172.16.1.32;
> }

You're missing a semicolon after the first supersede line:

    interface "fxp0" {
            supersede domain mydomain.com;
            supersede domain-name-servers 172.16.1.17, 172.16.1.32;
    }



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