On Monday 23 January 2006 01:09 pm, Darrin Chandler kindly wrote: > Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > >I dunno. I'm really ignorant about this stuff. I just have a box connected > > to the internet by a Quest Actiontec DSL modem. According to tech support > > at FastQ, the modem is using the wrong nameserver, or pointing to the > > wrong nameserver, or something along those lines. He had me change the > > nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and everything worked great after that. > > But I think the DSL modem is causing it to revert back to the old > > nameserver. > > > >Siri Amrit > > Try "man dhclient.conf" and look for "supersede"... > > This will allow you to tell your dhcp client to use values you supply > instead of setting them from the DHCP server. Thanks, but reading that man page, it's beyond my understanding and skill. Unless I can see a concrete example of what the command should look like, and unless I know in advance how to make corrections if something should go wrong, I'm afraid to mess with that. I can't take the risk of screwing things up and not be able to get back online. Siri Amrit -- Tigerflag Natural Perfumery, LLC www.tigerflag.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss