In article <3CB0E18E-7F4F-11D8-BD1D-000393CD2240@mac.com>,
Ian Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com> wrote:
>	In the script, dhclient-script, where does this script get the values 
>for the variables: new_domain_name and new_domain_name_servers?  It 
>appears that if these values are empty, /etc/resolv.conf is not created 
>and populated with information.
>	My reason for asking is that the file, /etc/resolv.conf, is not being 
>populated with this information after startup when the command, 
>dhclient, is run.  Running dhclient from the command line doesn't make 
>any difference.  I have had the same results with no /etc/dhclient.conf 
>file and one that has values in it.
>	As a stop gap measure, I am using an AWK script that parses the file 
>/var/db/dhclient.leases and fills in /etc/resolv.conf with the 
>appropriate values.  My script is called in /etc/rc.local after 
>startup.  This seems to be working fine now, but, all the other 
>information regarding dhclient that I have read claims that the 
>dhclient-script is supposed to fill in the values for resolv.conf.  I 
>would like to use that solution instead, if possible, as I'm no expert 
>with AWK and may have subtle errors in my script that won't show up 
>until sometime later.

What do you have in /etc/dhclient.conf?

christos