Re: (SOLVED!) Re: Auto network reconfiguring causes DNS lookup to fail

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:10:41AM +0100, Tomasz Kundera wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Since that advent of udev, I notice that not all network
> > devices start at 0. For instance, I have only one ethernet
> > interface, eth1. And only one wireless interface, wlan1.
> 
> Yes. You can chenge numbers in /etc/udev.d/*persistent_net*

That's nice. I had ignored udev details before, worth
getting familiar with them, and not overly difficult.

btw the directory is /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent_net* 

 
> > 28687 ?        S      0:00 avahi-autoipd: [eth1] bound 169.254.11.90
> > 28688 ?        S      0:00 avahi-autoipd: [eth1] callout dispatcher
> > 28745 ?        S      0:00 avahi-autoipd: [wlan1] sleeping
> > 28746 ?        S      0:00 avahi-autoipd: [wlan1] callout dispatcher
> 
> It's another avahi package most probably useless for you: avahi-autoipd
> Just purge it but check carefully if it stops. It seems that avahi
> developers do not take into account that somebody does not want that
> functionality.

I'm delighted to be back to a plain vanilla system!

We can't help that young Turks (and Finns, etc.) will be
doing their best to make things easier for everyone, even
for the grandmother who *doesn't* want to cross the street.

Cheers,
 
> -- 
> Tomasz Kundera
 

-- 
Joel Roth