a linux virus: NetworkManager

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Nov 2 00:00:43 UTC 2009


Rashkae wrote:
> Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Tom H wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Do you use dhcp or do you have a fixed ip address?
>>>
>>> How did you bring your NIC up?
>>>       
>>    I have a fixed address, set in /etc/network/interfaces
>>
>>    but as I said, the network still worked: it was just the DNS which didn't work,
>>    and that happened suddenly,  2 days after the Karmic install !
>>
>>     
>
> Any DHCP client, including network manager, will overwrite the contents
> of resolv.conf
>
> Moving along, nothing to see here.
>
>   

Except that he does not use dhcp...

Nuke networkmanager from orbit I say!




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