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Re: Which resolv.conf file?



On Mi, 31 iul 19, 08:59:11, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 08:50:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:21:32AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:16:03AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > > On Mi, 31 iul 19, 09:06:36, Reco wrote:
> > > > > Assuming it is, and you're using ifupdown, you need to change
> > > > > "dns-nameserver" stanza in the interface definition.
> > > > 
> > > > Careful, in /etc/network/interfaces it's 'dns-nameservers' (mind the 
> > > > trailing 's'), because you can list more servers ;)
> > > 
> > > /usr/share/doc/resolvconf/README.gz disagrees with you:
> > > 
> > > * For each inet static logical interface through which a nameserver
> > >   is accessible, add lines like the following to /etc/network/interfaces .
> > > 
> > > 	  dns-nameserver 11.22.33.44
> > > 	  dns-nameserver 55.66.77.88
> > > 	  dns-search foo.org bar.com
> > 
> > Reco is correct.
> > 
> > isc-dhcp-client uses "domain-name-servers" in its configuration file,
> > whereas resolvconf uses "dns-nameserver".  Most likely, Andrei momentarily
> > confused the two.
> 
> It might be the documentation that's confused. Here's an extract from
> man resolvconf

[...]
 
>        The dns-nameservers option is also accepted and, unlike dns-nameserver, can be given  mul‐
>        tiple arguments, separated by spaces.

Ok, the 'dns-nameserver' option must have been added in the meantime, as 
'dns-nameservers' was quite confusing (I got bit by it several times).

Let's see... according to the changelog it was added in Jessie ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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