dhcpcd-discuss

Sorry Roy.

I am playing with samba4 and just have the VM hanging off a broadband modem / router.

Normally yes, absolutely. I just want to get the IP but set up a realm also I am going to share the VM so it's not normal but good for a demo.

Maybe a lot of this is me being a debian/ubuntu guy playing with arch linux, but I do really like arch :)


If I do that resolvconf writes out a blank resolv.conf
It must be the arch linux resolv order that is confusing me.

I am just running a test and have a VM running arch.

I only want the IP address of from the broadband router / modem I am running from.

Its just a test and would like to keep it this way as it makes sharing the VM easy for others networking.

/etc/hosts is set up like this

#*****************************************************************************************
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	samba1.office.samba4.lan	samba1

::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost	samba1.office.samba4.lan	samba1		
#*******************************************************************************************

/etc/dhcpcd.conf
#*******************************************************************************************
#option domain_name_servers domain_name domain_search host_name
#*******************************************************************************************
I commented out pulling the domain and host name.

I thought resolv.conf would then just grab the info from /etc/hosts
Its empty and if I do a 

hostname -f
localhost.localdomain

hostname -d
localdomain

hostname -i
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1

hostname
localhost

If I just want to grab the ip address handed out by a dhcp server and set the hostname and domain to local of myhostname and mydomain.
How do I do it?

I have posted on the arch linux forum as I was expecting the /etc/hosts to come through to resolv.conf

Apols

Stuart
 
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday 3rd July 2014 15:34
> To: dhcpcd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [dhcpcd-discuss] dhcdpd supercede option
> 
> Hi Stuart
> 
> On 03/07/2014 14:24, Stuart Naylor wrote:
> > Apols to ask this but I always get confused with dhcpcd when it comes
> > to overwriting return dhcp options.
> > 
> > dhcdpd uses supercede option value.
> > 
> > If I want to keep the IP but overwrite
> > 
> > domain_name_servers = 127.0.0.1
> > domain_name = mydomain
> > domain_search = mydomain
> 
> Instead of overwriting your static values, how about don't request them 
> in /etc/dhcpcd.conf?
> 
> > Its prob really easy apols for being a noob.
> 
> The noob fails to ask questions - you asked one :)
> 
> Roy
> 
>