Ubuntu Domain Server

Ethan Baldridge ethan at superiordocumentservices.com
Sat Nov 7 17:24:37 UTC 2009


Follow-up to this: I just logged into the VPN for the first time after upgrading to Karmic at home and it kept my default route, didn't replace the nameserver entries, and still added a local route for the VPN over ppp0! Whatever work has gone into NetworkManager between 9.04 and 9.10 I heartily approve!

Thanks!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-
> devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ethan Baldridge
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:59 AM
> To: Shentino; Morten Kjeldgaard
> Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton
> Subject: RE: Ubuntu Domain Server
> 
> I just edit resolv.conf anyway and fix it the next time it “breaks”
> (every time I log into my company VPN, even though I have the PPPoE
> client set to not apply DNS settings from the DHCP server).  For a
> personal computer, I can just keep editing; I have to fix the default
> route every time anyway. But it would be nice to know how to “fix” it –
> and the routing table – permanently.
> 
> > From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-
> devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Shentino
> > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:33 AM
> > To: Morten Kjeldgaard
> > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Domain Server
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard
> <mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
> >
> > On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>> I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything?
> >>
> >> I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs.  A good UI should
> >> improve
> >> things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration.
> >
> > That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices
> > and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like.
> >
> > One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3
> > line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and
> > intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network
> > configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot.
> >
> > IIRC, resolvconf leaves a big fat #AUTOGENERATED, DO NOT EDIT comment
> line >in the file, so at least any potential conf-file monkeys looking
> to poke around are clued in, and presumably a short operation can tell
> resolvconf to go away or at least disable itself.
> >
> > There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a
> laptop
> > and hundreds of workstations.
> >
> > -- Morten
> >
> >
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