Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
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Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home
router. B does not. I might have put that dns info there in the past,
but if so, it does not get overwritten. I still don't know what is
overwritting my B box resolv.conf or why my A box does not suffer from
the same fate.

So, which of boxes A and B have the 'resolvconf' package installed? It seems
like B does not but A does. If A does not, then something else is modifying
the /etc/resolv.conf file which I think should not.

The purpose of resolvconf is to manage the list of nameservers as interfaces
(and their respective nameservers) come and go.

Yes, you are right. B has resolvconf, A does not. Also worth noting is
that B has stopped dumping my nameserver 192.168.200.1 (after a few
daily updates to testing). I will have to look into this resolvconf and
see how resolv.conf.d fits into this. Thanks, I missed the glaring CLUE
in your first response about resolvconf and just jumped to reading the
man page for resolvconf. One more piece put together for me.


After reading previous verion of Debian specific network configuration
document section by the resolvconf author, I have created new one here:

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch06.en.html



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