dhclient and your resolv.conf

I use a custom search domain (so I don't have to type out web-ster.com) to save me a lot of typing. The problem is that everytime I DHCP (or renew) it overwrites my /etc/resolv.conf with whatever the DHCP options are. I finally found a way to append on the search domain in Fedora. Simply create a file /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks file with these contents

echo "search web-ster.com" >> /etc/resolv.conf
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June 23rd 2006 - jbeez

Or you can fix it properly by editing dhclient.conf and adding a supersede or prepend statement.

man 5 dhclient.conf ftw

May 30th 2007 - jbeez sucks

tried that b4 jbeez, fedora happily ignores that shit - you rock, man who posted this real working solution

October 25th 2011 - xxx

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 SEARCH="example.com sub1.example.com sub2.example.com"

October 25th 2011 - xxx
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