Re: Network config
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:10:23PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Le 02/08/2017 à 16:19, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> > >
> > > 1) Make sure the Debian "resolvconf" package is *not* installed.
> >
> > You should reconsider this advice. resolvconf may be your best ally to
> > handle such a situation.
>
> OK, I've scanned
> <https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/openresolv/resolvconf.8.en.html> and
> <https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/openresolv/resolvconf.conf.5.en.html>.
>
> Looks complicated, with lots of specialized words being thrown around
> but not defined.
>
> E.g. resolvconf(8) says "In some situations resolvconf needs to act as
> a deterrent to writing to /etc/resolv.conf. Where this file cannot be
> made immutable or you just need to toggle this behaviour, resolvconf
> can be disabled by adding resolvconf=NO to resolvconf.conf(5)."
>
> Looks promising, eh? But then resolvconf.conf(5) says "Set to NO to
> disable resolvconf from running any subscribers. Defaults to YES."
>
> What is a "subscriber"? Definitely not defined in (8). There's a section
> called "SUBSCRIBER OPTIONS" in (5) but it still doesn't explain what they
> are.
>
> Back to (8), it says "Where this file cannot be made immutable". Is it
> *admitting*
To be precise, "implying" is perhaps accurate.
> that making the file immutable is the preferred solution, and
> resolvconf is just a backup plan? That's what I'm getting out of it.
Perhaps in certain scenarios, yes - the world's full of wierd
networks :)
> I don't see the advantage of installing a package and configuring it
> in order to make it do *nothing*, when I can achieve the same thing
> by making the resolv.conf file immutable. (On Linux.)
>
> Don't get me wrong; I'm sure there is a genuine need for resolvconf
> and all this complexity on some systems. Especially systems that are
> designed to be moved around, dynamically connecting and disconnecting
> various wireless networks, instantiating and decommissioning VPN sessions,
> and so on.
>
> But for a great many *other* systems, we just want to be able edit the
> resolv.conf file by hand and have our changes *stay* there, untouched.
> We know what we are doing, and the DHCP server is not under our direct
> control, and we just need to make the DHCP client keep its hands OFF
> the god damned file.
If you're wanting a static resolv.conf, are you manually
running dhclient, or using /etc/network/interfaces ?
I.e. is this a one-shot scenario, or a "static" config situation?
> It should *not* be this hard to be allowed to edit a three line text
> file that has been in common use across every Unix-like operating system
> for decades.
>
> Nevertheless, if someone can definitively state that the following
> is true:
>
> "If you install resolvconf and then do:
> echo resolvconf=NO >> /etc/resolvconf.conf
> no Debian package will ever modify your /etc/resolv.conf again."
>
> then I will be glad to accept it as yet another alternative solution
> for some users/systems.
I'm not that knowledgeable, but dhclient is listen in the resolvconf
man page as a "^SUPPLIERS OF NAMESERVER INFORMATION"... so appears to
be intended to work together.
Have you tried also reading man dhclient.conf ?
Good luck,
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