ubuntu 6.10: Problem with DNS configuration...

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 16 14:03:39 UTC 2007


Chanchao wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:12 +0100, Patrick Gelin wrote:
> 
>> And after a reboot, this is the resolv.conf file:
>> domain orange.fr
>> nameserver 192.168.0.1
>> nameserver 80.10.246.3
> 
> I get the same thing when using wireless, and the Network Manager
> Applet.  Every time it connects to a wireless network it replaces the
> DNS with whatever the wireless router fed it.
> 
> I find it strange that DNS seems a global setting, when it should
> clearly be a setting PER network. (Not even per network interface, but
> actually per network of which there can be many, especially wireless
> ones.)
> 
> Like you step into a Starbucks shop and BAM!, your DNS settings are gone
> with the wind. :)

As they _should_ be.  DHCP always returns the _network's_ DNS settings. 
They're the ones you want.
-- 
derek





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