diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9e8cac9..489a9ca 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Vcs-Git: https://git.wit.com/netops/wit-network-config
 
 Package: wit-network-config
 Architecture: all
-Depends: systemd, sed, tcpdump, mtr-tiny, iproute2, ifupdown, ipmitool, iptables, lldpd, strongswan, telnet, netcat, fping, curl, wget, ifstat, rsyslog, ncurses-term, net-tools, bridge-utils, vlan, gnupg, sudo, isc-dhcp-client, frr (>= 5.0.1-wit), frr (<< 5.0.2-wit)
+Depends: systemd, sed, tcpdump, mtr-tiny, iproute2, ifupdown, ipmitool, iptables, lldpd, strongswan, telnet, netcat, fping, curl, wget, ifstat, rsyslog, ncurses-term, net-tools, bridge-utils, vlan, gnupg, sudo, isc-dhcp-client, bind9-host, dnsutils, frr (>= 5.0.1-wit), frr (<< 5.0.2-wit)
 Provides: ${diverted-files}
 Conflicts: ${diverted-files}, dhcpcd5
 Description: configure network for a standard wit compute and/or data node
diff --git a/debian/wit-network-config.postinst b/debian/wit-network-config.postinst
index a48ed43..1b53e45 100755
--- a/debian/wit-network-config.postinst
+++ b/debian/wit-network-config.postinst
@@ -24,17 +24,16 @@ case "$1" in
 
      ### START gather all the info from the box and generate the variabels
 
-        source /etc/wit-net.conf
-	if [ -z $LOOPBACKv4 ]; then
-	    echo "LOOPBACK not provided by DHCP"
-	    exit 2
-        fi
-
+        #source /etc/wit-net.conf
+ 	export DOMAINNAME=${HOSTNAME#*.}
+	export LOOPBACKv4=$(dig +short ${HOSTNAME%%.*}.loopback.${HOSTNAME#*.})
 	export TIER_ID=$(echo $LOOPBACKv4 | cut -d . -f 3)
 	export NODE_ID=$(echo $LOOPBACKv4 | cut -d . -f 4)
- 	export DOMAINNAME=${HOSTNAME#*.}
-
 
+	if [ -z $LOOPBACKv4 ]; then
+	    echo "unable to find my LOOPBACK IP"
+	    exit 2
+        fi
         if [ -z "$TIER_ID" ]; then
             echo "Unable to autodetect TIER_ID, looks like we deal with a special node, please set in environment"
             exit 2
@@ -55,29 +54,67 @@ case "$1" in
 
      ## START writing config files
 
+      # write hosts file
+	sed -i -e "/debcore1/d" -e "/${HOSTNAME%%.*}/d" -e "/${LOOPBACKv4}/d" /etc/hosts
+	echo -e "${LOOPBACKv4}\t${HOSTNAME}\t${HOSTNAME%%.*}" >>/etc/hosts
 
+
+
+      # disable password logins on ssh
         sed -i -e '/#*\s*PasswordAuthentication /d' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
         echo "PasswordAuthentication no" >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
 
 
-        echo "iface lo inet static" > /etc/network/interfaces.d/lo
-	echo "    address ${LOOPBACKv4}/32" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/lo
-	echo "" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/lo
-        echo "iface lo inet6 static" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/lo
-	echo "    address ${LOOPBACKv6}/128" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/lo 
+
+      # set network interface configurations
+        cat <<-EOF >/etc/network/interfaces.d/lo
+		auto lo
+		iface lo inet loopback
+
+		iface lo inet static
+		    address ${LOOPBACKv4}/32
+		iface lo inet6 static
+		    address ${LOOPBACKv6}/128
+	EOF
+
+	cat <<-"EOF" >/etc/network/interfaces.d/mgmt1
+		auto mgmt1
+		iface mgmt1 inet6 auto
+		iface mgmt1 inet dhcp
+		    pre-up /bin/ip link add mgmt type vrf table mgmt
+		    pre-up /bin/ip link set up dev mgmt
+		    pre-up /bin/ip link set master mgmt dev mgmt1
+		    post-down /bin/ip link del dev mgmt
+	EOF
+
+	cat <<-"EOF" >/etc/network/interfaces.d/feth
+	auto feth1
+	iface feth1 inet manual
+	    mtu 9000
+
+	auto feth2
+	iface feth2 inet manual
+	    mtu 9000
+	EOF
 
 
 
+
+      # set frr config
         sed -i -e "s/FRRROUTERID/${LOOPBACKv4}/" -e "s/NODEASN/${NODE_ASN}/" /etc/frr/frr.conf.wit 
         chown frr.frr /etc/frr/frr.conf.wit /etc/frr/daemons.wit
 
 
+
+
+      # set ipsec config
         sed -i -e "s/HOSTNAME\.DOMAINNAME/${HOSTNAME}/" /etc/ipsec.conf.wit
         echo ": RSA ${HOSTNAME}.key" >/etc/ipsec.secrets
 
 
 
 
+      # write udev rules for device names
         echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="'$MGMT_MAC'", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="mgmt1"' >/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
         i=0
         for nic in $(ip -br link | awk '{ print $1 }'); do
@@ -89,12 +126,16 @@ case "$1" in
         sed -i "/$MGMT_MAC.*feth./d" /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
 
 
-	sed -i -e "/debcore1/d" -e "/${HOSTNAME%%.*}/d" -e "/${LOOPBACKv4}/d" /etc/hosts
-	echo -e "${LOOPBACKv4}\t${HOSTNAME}\t${HOSTNAME%%.*}" >>/etc/hosts
 
 
+      # wite grub rules for serial terminal
 	sed -i -e '/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=/d' -e '/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=/d' -e '/GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=/d' -e '/GRUB_TERMINAL=/d' /etc/default/grub
-	echo -e 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8"\nGRUB_TERMINAL=serial\nGRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=1 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"' >>/etc/default/grub
+	cat <<-EOF >>/etc/default/grub
+		GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
+		GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8"
+		GRUB_TERMINAL=serial
+		GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=1 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"'
+	EOF
 
 
     ## END config file section
diff --git a/files/interfaces b/files/interfaces
index 10cfff2..d73f5c5 100644
--- a/files/interfaces
+++ b/files/interfaces
@@ -1,22 +1 @@
-auto lo
-iface lo inet loopback
-
-auto mgmt1
-iface mgmt1 inet6 auto
-iface mgmt1 inet dhcp
-    pre-up /bin/ip link add mgmt type vrf table mgmt
-    pre-up /bin/ip link set up dev mgmt
-    pre-up /bin/ip link set master mgmt dev mgmt1
-    post-down /bin/ip link del dev mgmt
-
-
-auto feth1
-iface feth1 inet manual
-    mtu 9000
-
-auto feth2
-iface feth2 inet manual
-    mtu 9000
-
-
 source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d