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Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

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I've just installed Fedora 18 X86-64. I disabled and uninstalled networkmanager and use the standard networking stuff which seems to use dhclient. I'm using a standard ethernet connection.

So I need to do two things. Feel free to tell me to RTFM if you can provide a link!

1.How do I enable pre-pending of nameservers? I want to use dnsmasq to cache DNS requests so I need to add 127.0.0.1 to the top of resolv.conf. Google searchs take me to the Arch Wiki. I can't seem to
find a dhclient.conf file anywhere in /etc.

2.How do I assign a zone in firewalld to my connection? I want to be able to open ports for bittorrent and XMPP jingle voice/video. The firewalld wiki on the Fedora site doesn't seem to be able to answer my
question.

posted May 18, 2013 by anonymous

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You may want to read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.42.2/sysconfig.txt
- search for PEERDNS.
I don't think this works. In the ifcfg settings if you specify a DNS server then the network is assumed to have static DNS. So if I put DNS1=127.0.0.1 in the the ifcfg-em1 file all I get in resolv.conf is that nameserver and not the one supplied by my router underneath.

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Apologies for replying to myself. Issue one has been fixed by creating the file /etc/dhcp/dhclient-em1.conf and adding the line "prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;" to the file. I still need some info on
firewalld zones though.

answer May 18, 2013 by anonymous
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