Networking keeps stopping

[Jonathan M. Prigot]

Best indication would be "ps -ef|grep dh". If anything but your "grep"
command comes up, then you are running a DHCP client. Not sure if this
applies, but NetworkManager often sneaks this.
-- 
Jonathan M. Prigot <jprigot at verizon.net>

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 10:38 -0600, Homer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan M. Prigot
> <jprigot at verizon.net> wrote:
> > My guess is that you are using DHCP on your network. The DHCP server is
> > responsible for supplying the entries in /etc/resolv.conf. Someone at
> > the server end probably deleted those entries. As you see, you can
> > manually edit the /etc/resolv.conf file, but when the DHCP client on
> > your machine refreshes, they disappear.
> 
> Good guess, but my machine has always had a static IP.  We are moving
> to DHCP here, but I've been a hold out for a number of reasons.  Might
> I have DHCP running on my machine I don't know about?  I always
> configure my network info by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file,
> and that has always worked.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 10:07 -0600, Homer wrote:
> >> Kubuntu 10.04
> >>
> >> Yesterday the networking on my machine stopped working.  I figured it
> >> was something in the building as I didn't make any changes on my
> >> computer that preceded the stoppage.  Ultimately the IT folks here
> >> concluded the problem was I didn't have any entries in my
> >> /etc/resolv.conf file.  They added the nameservers and dns-search,
> >> which got things going, and my machine was declared fixed.  I was
> >> dubious.
> >>
> >> This morning networking stopped again.  A quick check of the
> >> resolv.conf file showed it again to be empty.  I made the changes and
> >> restarted networking and was off again.  Then it stopped again 30
> >> minutes later.  resolv.conf was again empty.  I repeated the above
> >> steps, and am posting here before it quits again.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any idea what is really going on?  I'm stumped, but that's
> >> not hard to do.  I updated my machine the day prior to the first
> >> stoppage.  No other OS fiddling.
> >>
> >
> >
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