On 9/27/05, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Steven Lewis wrote: > On 9/26/05, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote: >> >> Steven Lewis wrote: >> >> > I have manually editied via VIM the /etc/resolv.conf file to reflect my >> > domains, and nameservers. >> > >> > However there seems to be a system event that overwrites the edited >> > file back to a default file. >> >> Your dhcp client will certainly overwrite it. There are many other >> applications that _might_. Simply, if your work runs Windows systems, >> then all _their_ machines are getting everything they need from the DHCP >> server, >> and you can too. There shouldn't _be_ multiple domains in >> /etc/resolv.conf - you only belong to one. There probably should be >> multiple DNS servers, but that should be happening automatically. >> >> It would be much easier if you explained what you think is wrong and what >> you are trying to do. > I work within an envrionment which calls for me to manage linux servers > via ssh. > > My box, kubuntu of course, resides in the > <a href="http://foo.company.com"> foo.company.com</a><<a href="http://foo.company.com">http://foo.company.com</a>>domain. The servers I manage > are on either of the following: > <a href="http://corp.company.net">corp.company.net</a> < <a href="http://corp.company.net">http://corp.company.net</a>>, > <a href="http://dev.company.net">dev.company.net</a><<a href="http://dev.company.net">http://dev.company.net</a>>, > <a href="http://testlab.company.net"> testlab.company.net</a> <<a href="http://testlab.company.net">http://testlab.company.net</a>> domains. > > If I do not edit my resolv.conf file I must use FQDN to ssh to the boxes. OK - it doesn't seem like such an awful chore to use FQDNs, but then I don't administer more than 5 boxes on two domains (and I'm only on one domain at a time, anyway) ;-) Presumably, the resolv.conf you wrote works for you, so what does that look like? Pawel's idea might solve one problem, but I think there's more... -- derek -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users </a></blockquote><div> Derek, Pawel and all - Pawel's suggestion works. I took out domain and edited the resolv.conf file as I need it to read. The other domains are in a line starting with search . I rebooted and this morning the resolv.conf has remained the way I want it to read. I work on a team that manages a very large grid environment so this issue cropped up very fast using kubuntu in this environment. At home or a small environment I did not have this issue cause me any problems. Steve </div> </div>