resolv.conf file keeps getting rewritten

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:22:35PM +0000, jdthood at aglu.demon.nl wrote:

> Resolvconf support was added to dhclient (from dhcp-client) relatively
> recently, in release 2.0pl5-17.

In Ubuntu we only support the 3.x series (dhcp3-client), and Debian ought to
go in the same direction.

The changelog seems to suggest that dhcp3-client supports resolvconf, but I
see no evidence of it in the code.

> gnome-system-tools is still incompatible with resolvconf insofar as it
> provides a way for the user to overwrite resolv.conf (#258553) whereas in
> the resolvconf world that file shouldn't be changed directly.

I'm not sure that I follow the justification in that bug.  Why shouldn't
g-s-t allow the user to add and remove nameservers?  If the user is
configuring the interface statically, they need to be able to set
nameservers as well.  It probably doesn't make sense for them to be able to
edit resolv.conf when it will be modified by dhclient anyway, though; is
that the kind of thing you mean?

> However, given that its network configuration module has so many other
> evil bugs, it isn't advisable to use g-s-t to configure networking on
> Debian systems.  (In my opinion the module should be disabled until those
> bugs are fixed, but it's not my decision to make.)
>
> Does Ubuntu include and endorse g-s-t?  If so then I will see what I can
> do to get #258553 fixed.

Yes, we do.  We have certainly encountered bugs, but they are being fixed in
short order.  It would be worthwhile to attempt to reproduce your bugs with
the version in Hoary (currently 1.1.4.1-0ubuntu4), and let us know if some
of them still exist.

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 - mdz