resolv.conf file keeps getting rewritten

[Thomas Hood]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:22 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.


Some package you have installed is updating the file.  I have made a
list of such packages in the README file of the (Debian) resolvconf
package.


> > 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.


As author of resolvconf, I agree.  :)

dnsmasq is also a solid and well supported program.


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


resolvconf is already integrated with all of the most popular packages
that configure the resolver:

   ifupdown[*]
   ppp, pppconfig and pppoeconf
   pump, dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, dhcpcd
   bind[*], bind9, dnsmasq, pdnsd
   nscd

There are a couple of packages and many older versions of the above
packages that aren't compatible with resolvconf;  resolvconf Conflicts
with them.

[*] requires manual configuration to some extent

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood at yahoo.co.uk>