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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-12-05 17:17:49 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-12-05 17:17:49 +0000
commit251c884ebd22672a33ed570efacd0becf1a630d0 (patch)
treead8fad67b000dc24fce78cabcd00c0d98146df6a /share
parentc533fca4415fc06dc7bdb437787931eecbc269cc (diff)
document that resolv.conf is now not unconditionally overwritten;
text/ok krw
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/resolv.conf.513
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
index 10d43dc44a1..92c392497bc 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.40 2012/11/27 14:43:37 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.41 2012/12/05 17:17:48 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.7 1996/03/06 18:22:16 scottr Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)resolver.5 5.12 (Berkeley) 5/10/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 27 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 5 2012 $
.Dt RESOLV.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -75,9 +75,14 @@ routines, the file
may be created manually.
This file will be appended to the generated
.Nm resolv.conf
-file by
-.Xr dhclient 8 ,
+file by dhclient,
ensuring options remain.
+If no updated information is available to dhclient,
+and
+.Nm resolv.conf.tail
+is not present, then
+.Nm resolv.conf
+will not be modified by dhclient.
.Pp
On a machine whose network connection does not change frequently (such as a desktop
machine on a local-area network), the