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Using OpenDNS with NetworkManager for dhclient

Oct-2-2008 By miketeo

I have tried overriding my resolv.conf nameservers with OpenDNS on Fedora Core 9 so that the domain names get resolved faster.

  1. Ensure that your network is able to get a dynamic IP from your ISP’s dhcp server.
  2. Locate your dhclient configuration for your interface. For my machine, the file is /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf.
  3. Then add the following 2 lines to this configuration file.
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222;
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.220.220;

Now restarting your NetworkManager, and you should see that the OpenDNS nameservers are prepended before your ISP’s nameservers.

Posted in: Fedora, System Administration
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