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Re: DNS on minimal new installation

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:31:18 -0400
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to
> > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP
> > address.  
> 
> OK.  I'm guessing that's not relevant here, though.
> 
> > If
> > you're not running Network Manager nor a resolver application,
> > nothing will touch /etc/resolv.conf, so the nameserver would
> > normally go there, as you have done.  
> 
> That part's incorrect.  The thing that usually modifies resolv.conf in
> most setups is in fact the DHCP client daemon.  That will happen even
> if Network Manager is not in use.
> 

I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be
running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation,
but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address
configuration doesn't have.

I did go on to say that if an onboard caching server is used, the right
place for the authoritative server is in the cache server forwarders
configuration, and resolv.conf should then show localhost.

-- 
Joe

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DNS on minimal new installation Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-10-24 21:20 +0200
  Re: DNS on minimal new installation Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-10-24 21:40 +0200
    Re: DNS on minimal new installation Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-10-24 23:00 +0200
  Re: DNS on minimal new installation Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-10-24 22:30 +0200
    Re: DNS on minimal new installation Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-10-24 22:40 +0200
      Re: DNS on minimal new installation <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-10-25 07:20 +0200
        Re: DNS on minimal new installation Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-10-25 09:30 +0200
          Re: DNS on minimal new installation Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-10-25 10:40 +0200
            Re: DNS on minimal new installation <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-10-25 11:40 +0200
      Re: DNS on minimal new installation Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-10-25 09:20 +0200
      Re: DNS on minimal new installation Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-10-25 10:40 +0200
        Re: DNS on minimal new installation Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-10-25 13:40 +0200
          Re: DNS on minimal new installation eben@gmx.us - 2024-10-25 17:50 +0200

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