Re: why does resolv.conf change?

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Clive McBarton schreef:
> My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why?
>
> I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the
> problem persists.
As mentioned by others, /etc/resolv.conf is polled by the system when it 
needs info on how to do a dns lookup. Therefore, dhcp, ifconfig (ifup), 
wicd, network-mananger etc all can write to that file when they set up 
some interface.
Therefore, dns settings should be set either via dhcp, in 
/etc/networks/interfaces or via some user-leven config framework like 
wicd or network-manager.

Sjoerd

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