text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom doctor wrote 21408 philippe andersson wrote doctor wrote problem im client need network access machines connect network via eth0 assigned address via dhcp however get internet network proxy place give vendors access get www sprint wireless card seen ppp0 setup routing traffic goes sprint card exeception traffic bound network uses different gateway works well except name resolution piece right resolvconf set use dns servers provided sprint resolve www names want able resolve machine names network well using nameservers add resolvconfdoesnt work way long nameserver go try nameservers cant resolve name youre looking could add whole bunch names etchosts file id rather understand problem specify dns client dns server able resolve internet names addition internal hosts wont need proxy get answers hth cheers bye ph dns boxes serve resolve names internally hosted machines bzzt wrong dns boxes hold records names internally hosted machines machine dns boxes pass query another higher level dns box process continues way root level servers need possibly lowerlevel dns servers either authoritative answer provided server answer replies record tue 05 aug 2008 031140 0500 opensuse separate resolvconf per interface