RE: [opensuse] Have a separate resolv.conf per interface

Have you ever thought that they are trying to make it so anyone can use it
not just us geeks? Most people I know just know how to turn on the
computer. I've use KDE 4 and I like what I see, but it still needs plenty
of work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doctor Who [mailto:whodoctor@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:47 PM
To: Philippe Andersson
Cc: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Tommy Pham
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Have a separate resolv.conf per interface

On 2/14/08, Philippe Andersson <pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doctor Who wrote:
The problem is this:

I'm at a client and need to be on their network to access their
machines. I connect to their network via eth0 and am assigned an
address via DHCP.

However, I cannot get out to the Internet on their network. They have
a proxy in place and do not give vendors access. So to get on the
WWW, I have a Sprint Wireless card seen as ppp0. I have setup routing
such that all traffic goes through the Sprint card with the exeception
of traffic bound for their network which uses a different gateway.

This works well except for the name resolution piece. Right now
resolv.conf is set to use DNS servers provided by Sprint to resolve
WWW names, but I want to be able to resolve machine names on their
network as well using *their* nameservers. I cannot add that to
resolv.conf...doesn't work that way. As long as a nameserver is not
down, it will not go on to try other nameservers just because it can't
resolve the name you're looking for. I could add a whole bunch of
names to my /etc/hosts file, but I'd rather not do that.
I understand your problem.

Can you not then specify just the DNS of the client ? Their DNS server
should be able to resolve Internet names in addition to their internal
hosts, and you won't need the proxy to get its answers.

HTH

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.


Their DNS boxes only serve to resolve names for internally hosted machines.
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