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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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