[Bug 1001881] Re: resolvconf incorrectly configures resolv.conf

[Thomas Hood]

People who don't know about resolvconf won't be so clever as to remove
it as a way of solving a name resolution problem in another package.

In the submitted file, "nameserver 127.0.0.1" correctly refers to the
caching nameserver (dnsmasq) listening on that loopback address. If
dnsmasq doesn't resolve names --- by forwarding queries (to 192.168.1.1,
in the submitter's case) --- then that is a matter to be taken up with
the dnsmasq maintainers.

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Title:
  resolvconf incorrectly configures resolv.conf

Status in “resolvconf” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This has happened a number of times both with some laptops. When they
  get up resolv.conf contains this:

  $ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
  # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
  #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
  nameserver 127.0.0.1
  search langfeldt.net

  This is nowhere like right and makes it impossible to get name-
  resolution. When I remove resolvconf everything works right. This is
  right:

  $ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
  # Generated by NetworkManager
  domain langfeldt.net
  search langfeldt.net
  nameserver 192.168.1.1

  (except that domain and search should not appear in the same
  resolv.conf file).

  # apt-cache policy resolvconf 
  resolvconf:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 1.63ubuntu11
    Version table:
       1.63ubuntu11 0
          500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: resolvconf (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May 20 11:00:20 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: resolvconf
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-20 (0 days ago)

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