Cannot ping outside university

[Tod Merley]

On 9/5/06, David <dpleydel at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> I've used chmod to remove all write permission on this file. Hopefully
> that will stop any further auto updates. But it's a pretty dirty
> hack. There is still a process going on somewhere which is definetely
> unrequired.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:41:37AM +0100, David wrote:
> > Arrrggghhhh. Ubuntu has again automatically re-writen my
> > /etc/resolve.conf to
> >
> > nameserver 10.0.1.1
> >
> > How can I prevent it from these automated rewrites?
> >
> > cheers
> > Dave
>
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Hi again Dave!

Henk Kostner has a good point.  At this point you want to know what is
resetting these network configuration parameters.  So where to start:

System > Administration > Services
# In the resulting Service Setting window you will find wonderful
check boxes where you can shut them off if you wish.  You are looking
for a dhcp client, resolve client, or Network Manager.

Following is a copy / paste from a user terminal ( # Annotated; ):
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# Place a record of all the running processes in "psaux.txt"
tod at tod-desktop:~$ ps aux > psaux.txt

# Look at the processes with "less" (run window full - use up down arrow)
tod at tod-desktop:~$ less psaux.txt

# Looks through the output of "ps aux" for an occurance of "dh" and prints line
tod at tod-desktop:~$ ps aux | grep dh
# The results! Looking for "dhclient" (DHCP)
tod      10084  0.0  0.1   2880   804 pts/1    S+   16:10   0:00 grep dh

# Now looking for "ne" (network manager)
tod at tod-desktop:~$ ps aux | grep ne
root      4416  0.0  0.2   2716   980 ?        S    14:03   0:00 hald-runner
tod       4855  0.0  4.0  65588 18092 ?        Ssl  14:04   0:05
gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
tod       4889  0.0  2.2  67108 10268 ?        Sl   14:04   0:00
/usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet_Factory
--oaf-ior-fd=35
tod       4895  0.0  0.1   2284   800 ?        S    14:04   0:00
/usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/mapping-daemon
tod       4912  0.0  2.3  23396 10540 ?        S    14:04   0:00
/usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=37
tod      10099  0.0  0.1   2884   812 pts/1    R+   16:10   0:00 grep ne

# Now looking for "nm" (network manager)
tod at tod-desktop:~$ ps aux | grep nm
root      4551  0.0  0.3   5760  1372 ?        Ss   14:03   0:00
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
tod      10111  0.0  0.1   2880   796 pts/1    R+   16:10   0:00 grep nm

# Now looking for "re" (resolv - )
tod at tod-desktop:~$ ps aux | grep re
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:02   0:00 [kthread]
tod       4833  0.0  0.2   2192   944 ?        Ss   14:04   0:00
dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --sessiontod
4928  0.0  0.6  14760  2880 ?        Ss   14:04   0:00
gnome-screensaver
tod       5404  2.5 11.6 119164 52636 ?        Sl   14:16   3:00
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
root      9824  0.1  1.6  10296  7608 pts/0    Ss+  16:04   0:01 perl
/usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/services-conf --report
tod      10291  0.0  0.1   2884   816 pts/1    S+   16:15   0:00 grep re
tod at tod-desktop:~$
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Good Hunting!

Tod