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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what should I restart after changing /etc/resolv.conf?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:11:35
Message-Id: 4C1D0DDF.7000406@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] what should I restart after changing /etc/resolv.conf? by Jarry
1 Jarry wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I modified /etc/resolv.conf (added opendns-servers in addition
5 > to my own), but I do not know what I should restart for these
6 > changes to come into effect...
7 >
8 > I could restart the whole system, but there sure must be some
9 > cleaner way. Any idea?
10 >
11 > Jarry
12 >
13
14 When I changed mine a while back, I don't think I restarted anything.
15 From my understanding, it reads resolv.conf each time the network tries
16 to go to the internet. I guess you could restart the network to make
17 sure tho.
18
19 If you have wireshark or something similar installed, start it to
20 listening and then visit a website or something. Then look and see if
21 it went to the new DNS server or the old one.
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)