>>Firstly, when using DHCP every setting is configured apart from the 
>>nameservers (IPv4 address, gateway, netmask & network address).  To the 
>>best of my knowledge I ran though the DHCP-HowTo correctly, I have tried 
>>also with an empty dhclient.conf file, no dhclient.conf file at all, a 
>>blank resolv.conf/no resolv.conf.  Nothing I try seems to solve the 
>>problem.  I was unable to retrieve any hints from the appropriate man 
>>pages that provided any info.
> 
> 
> I had a similar problem when installing 1.6.1. The dhcp configuration during installation does not set the nameserver, and this has to be set manually.
> It can be set during installation, or later in resolv.conf.
> 
> My resolv.conf (an ADSL line):
> ------------------------
> search
> nameserver 10.0.0.1
> ------------------------
>  

I have set it manually which as you say works fine.  Unfortunately my 
ISP seems to switch around 5 different DNS servers which means some are 
not always available (down for maintenance I guess).  This is why I need 
DHCP on them.

> 
>>Secondly, how can I run dhclient again without having to reboot.  The 
>>first time I ran the script is went though fine however on subsequent 
>>attempts I got some message about "before reporting a bug, check the 
>>mailing lists and README files" (something like that).  
> 
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient restart

Thanks for that, it makes config changes a bit quicker.

> 
> hope this helps
> 
> /Peter
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