Re: NetworkManager and domain names

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

--On Friday, December 04, 2009 16:34:48 -0800 Dan Williams 
<dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 18:40 +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> > I use NetworkManager with three's mobile broadband. I have just found
> > out that it is not able to obtain a domain name with dhcpcd. Any ideas
> > how I can force NetworkManager into getting a domain name from three's
> > DHCP servers? Thanks for any advice given!

I'm curious as to what domain name you'd expect to see, snd what it would 
do for you?

Rick

> Remember that cellular mobile broadband doesn't actually use DHCP at
> all; the DHCP or PPP session is between you and the 3G device itself.
> What happens over the air is not DHCP, but a GPRS PDP context setup
> between the 3G device and the network that does not include the domain
> name.  You *may* be able to obtain a domain name through reverse-DNS,
> which NM may already be doing if you haven't set a persistent machine
> hostname through /etc/hostname or wherever.
>
> Dan
>
>
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