resolv.conf file keeps getting rewritten

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 01:10:44PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:43 -0700, Jim Kerr wrote:
> > I have left my desktop alone with out changing out of Gnome and both my
> > resolv.conf as well as the network setting for my first DNS server ip keeps
> > getting changed to 192.168.0.1 of its own accord. Can anyone help with this
> > please? I am using DSL with a static IP.
> 
> Any reason why Ubuntu is not using the 'resolvconf' and 'dnsmasq'
> packages?  I think they enhance the networking configuration a fair amount
> and are worth using.

There has been talk about having a local DNS cache; I'm not familiar with
dnsmasq, but if it is RFC-compliant, it might be worth a look.

Likewise for resolvconf; if it would be feasible to integrate it with all
applications which configure the resolver, that could be worthwhile.

> Also... what about ifplugd?

The long term plan is for something better integrated with the desktop, such
as NetworkManager, though it currently isn't suitable.

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 - mdz