X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b= j3oCJpod3npZpp8PM2oNM6LKd1yCpI8RSr4dQX1ENIrVeXmYWBuiRp7SAxb5pegA xujN+XRuaJikc0N0YPkY/bBYx/bfgfdnSQx1zSG47SwheKLPmjZV4T8FBJZUnMhF yLkk81CyYp6yVxY5ZDEN4CZ2Qd4wPyhZGXBx/PeGnNw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type; s=default; bh=Opi3C kBL3pC6/KfK9zevQFUQHa8=; b=p91K83wtlwiRBplN4OjWYdt8TCBmCIzmoDN9a JxS+/ijIQCfiy6DARVpajGAqNjDbFYg/JF6Du32pZHUbwc7YzRwyXKKXt0f0GAaL dCDai8U49owVEr5E1HXzPq8psddfbdzKogYaNZF8dnIbYkFtAW43NboAuedAlogO ILkUmk= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Window, Admin, nf, H*UA:WOW64 X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca Subject: Re: Automatically populate resolv.conf when new DNS is acquired To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <65242f5d-cc15-0024-47a8-0ce6be81aced AT mail DOT com> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:18:51 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <65242f5d-cc15-0024-47a8-0ce6be81aced@mail.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4CFF37E51738BA13FADC21C4" X-IsSubscribed: yes --------------4CFF37E51738BA13FADC21C4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2018-06-26 04:33, john doe wrote: > In gnupg2 the use of dirmngr utility is required to interact with a keyserver. > Dirmngr requires that '/etc/resolv.conf' be populated with my name servers. > That means that everytime the dns changes (new network ...) I need to manually > edit that file. > How can I let Cygwin update that file whenever the DNS is changed? Attached an awk script to generate resolv.conf from Windows ipconfig /all output, run from .cygwin_profile (sourced under Cygwin from login .bash_profile) using the stanza below: it only replaces an existing writable /etc/resolv.conf when the content changes - touch, chown, chmod /etc/resolv.conf to enable. # update /etc/resolv.conf if changed c=/etc/resolv.conf test -w $c && \ i=$(/usr/bin/which -- ipconfig) && \ r=$(/usr/bin/which -- resolv.awk) && \ t=$(/bin/mktemp -t -- resolv.conf.$$.XXXXXXXX) && \ if $i /all | $r > $t; then /usr/bin/cmp -s -- $t $c || \ /bin/cp -fv -- $t $c /bin/rm -f -- $t fi unset c i r t This could be used in a bash script run from a Windows scheduled task when a relevant DHCP event occurs: you can find DHCP events by checking Windows Admin Tools/Event Viewer/Window Logs/System/Filter Current Log/Event Sources/Dhcp-Client,DHCPv6-Client, or a similar PowerShell script. -- Take care. 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