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Re: Finding the program that keeps overwriting resolv.conf



On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:03:19AM -0500, aliasarmor wrote:
>    Hello, a program keeps overwriting my resolv.conf. For now I have resorted
>    to a cron job that manually sets my resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1 every
>    minute.
>    I properly set my DNS within Network-manager to 127.0.0.1 and that never
>    changes, according to the GUI. Although after several minutes/hours I
>    notice that my DNS begins pointing to an external address.
>    Whenever it gets overwritten it becomes: 
>        "
>        domain lan
>        search lan
>        nameserver 10.0.0.1
>        "
>    I have been running auditd on resolv.conf and the only oddity I think I
>    see is dhclient but I do not know enough to determine whether this is
>    normal.
>    "type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1574585306.801:972): auid=4294967295
>    ses=4294967295 op=updated_rules path="/etc/resolv.conf" key=(null) list=4
>    res= 1
>    type=PATH msg=audit(1574585306.801:973): item=2
>    name="/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new.28806" inode=12847486 dev=fe:01
>    mode=0100644 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 nametype=DELETE
>    cap_fp=0000000000000000 cap_fi=0000000000000000 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0"
>    I may be overlooking something stupid simple?

These previous discussions on the list should provide the information
you need:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg01448.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/08/msg00055.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00779.html

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez


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