Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:35:20PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > If Debian developers who are responsible for resolvconf are reading this,
> > and if they actually CARE about making things work correctly and sensibly,
> > then here is yet another proposal: give us a way to QUICKLY and EASILY
> > and RELIABLY tell resolvconf "never do anything".
>
> `resolvconf` only touches /etc/resolv.conf when it is installed/initialized.
> What it does to it is to replace it with a symlink.
> After that, it doesn't touch it any morel instead it only modifies the file
> that is the target of that symlink.
>
Given that multiple packages potentially touch/change resolv.conf (at
least resolvconf and the various DHCP clients), would be very useful is
a directive that can be put inside of resolv.conf that informs all such
packages that the file is not to be modified. That would allow the
admin to avoid having to hunt down all the different packages and
configure them individually to leave /etc/resolv.conf alone.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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