dhcpcd-discuss

2012/7/20 Leonardo Guilherme <leonardo.guilherme@xxxxxxxxx>

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> 2012/7/20 Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Hi
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>> On 19/07/2012 18:17, Leonardo Guilherme wrote:
>> > What is the correct way to pass a list of multiple static dns as an
>> > command line argument to dhcpcd?
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>> > I've been trying
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>> > dhcpcd --noipv4ll -S domain_name_servers=10.4.50.1 10.0.0.17 10.0.0.11
>> > eth0 and
>> > dhcpcd --noipv4ll -S domain_name_servers="10.4.50.1 10.0.0.17 10.0.0.11"
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>> > but none of them works, dhcpcd thinks that the last two ips are
>> interfaces.
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>> That works fine for me.
>> Maybe it's a quoting issue? What shell are you using, or is that a
>> command somewhere?
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> A command inside python it is. I am trying to fix an issue with wicd (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/145405) with static dns. It writes
> /etc/resolv.conf after a connection is estabilished but everytime dhcpcd
> renews a lease, /etc/resolv.conf is rewritten with information from the
> dhcp server, which is not desirable in this case.
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> The command is something like this:
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> dhcpcd -h host --noipv4ll -S %s eth0 % ' '.join(dns)
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Actually it is

dhcpcd -h host --noipv4ll -S domain_name_servers=%s eth0 % ' '.join(dns)


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> where dns is an array of dns ips. I tried quoting "%s" and \"%s\" but none
> worket.
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> Since you said it actually works, probably it is just my bad python
> skills. I'll play a little more with it.
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> Thanks.
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> Leonardo.
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