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Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?



Interesting.  I took a look at mine, and found
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug  8  2016 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf

so the thing is now entirely dynamic.  I don't know what setting it immutable would do or mean.
I'm running xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS


On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 01:18:58PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Who's saying it must be installed?

A few people in this thread, though I think they're saying "should"
rather than "must".

> Maybe I've missed something, but I think
> the consensus in this discussion was that if you want your resolv.conf to be
> unmanaged/static/administrator-controlled, then don't have resolvconf
> installed. If you have resolvconf installed, then what's the point of
> neutering it with a command?

Let's review what we've learned so far.

If you want to make local modifications to /etc/resolv.conf and have
them stick, here are some ways to do it:

1) chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

2) Individually configure each daemon that might try to modify the file,
   to make it stop doing so.

3) Install the resolvconf package, because by doing so you also install
   various hacks that modify the behavior of all known Debian daemons,
   stopping them from writing to /etc/resolv.conf.

   Then tell resolvconf itself to do nothing by putting resolvconf=NO
   in the /etc/resolvconf.conf file.




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