[ubuntu-za] DHCP DNS not included in DNS lookup

[Frans de waal]

On 25 Jan 2016 22:18, "Charl Wentzel" <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
>
> On 25/01/2016 17:38, Frans de waal wrote:
>>
>>
>> Where's the beagle getting it's ip address from?
>> Are that dhcp server configured correctly?
>>
> The Beaglebone got its IP address for eth0 from my router.  Based on the
lease info it seem to get the DNS server...
>
> $cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases
> lease {
>   interface "eth0";
>   fixed-address 10.0.0.110;
>   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>   option routers 10.0.0.2;
>   option dhcp-lease-time 86400;
>   option dhcp-message-type 5;
>   option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.2;
>   option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.0.2;
>   option domain-name "Home";
>   renew 1 2016/01/25 15:18:29;
>   rebind 1 2016/01/25 15:18:29;
>   expire 1 2016/01/25 15:18:29;
>
> }
>
>> Check your hosts file,  or specify a nameserver in the interfaces file,
then update your system.  Should do the job.
>>
> The device will be moving around between networks, so adding a name
server to the interfaces file is not the best idea, unless I add all the
name servers for all the networks manually.
> Can you add a name server if a port is configured for DHCP?
>
> I have temporarily solved the problem by adding some of the name servers
to the resolvconf setup: and rebooting
> $ cat /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail
> domain localdomain
> search localdomain
> nameserver 10.0.0.2  <-- entry added here
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> This is not a good solution though as it only works if I add all the name
servers manually.  Would much rather have it added dynamically as the
Beaglebone connects to the network.
>
Yea,  now all you need is apt-get update. An apt-get upgrade and iy should
solve itself,  had that bug for about 10 minutes few months back 😮.
>
> Charl
>
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