New 10.4 32 bit install, needs dns info

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> 
wrote:
>> This is for the iface eth0 static
>> stanza in /etc/networking/interfaces
>>
>> The net is working locally by hosts file translations, but the manpage
>> for interfaces does not demo how a dns address is passed.
>>
>> And of course, /etc/resolv.conf has no data other than claims to have
>> been generated by network-manager, which I'd druther not fight with when
>> a simple /etc/init.d/networking start should just do it. ISTR on 6.06, I
>> was able to kill NM, and then hand edit resolv.conf, then make it
>> immutable and that was the end of that, but it was also 6.06 and I expect
>> things are done differently now.
>>
>> This should come up on boot using all static addressing.
>
>If you are not using NM, why don't you uninstall it and hand edit
>/etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf (without any need to set
>immutable, etc)?
>
Ok, I'll do that later today.  Thanks.

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