Strange (dns ?) behavior

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:28 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> > Do you have multiple search domains in resolv.conf by any chance? If not
>> > sure, take a peak.  (I ran into something recently that caused some
>> similar
>> > symptoms, at least with ping output)
>> >
>> I do. 4 of them in fact. What did you find?
>>
>>
> There is a bug or at least inconsistency in the way the documentation says
> to handle this vs how Ubuntu network manager  does things. This issue seemed
> to be (in my case) whether the domains are separated by a space or comma.
> For me, there were just two domains and after chasing this off and on for a
> while, I just went back to one.  So I don't know a proper solution. And I
> can't say for sure that's the cause, but that was where I wound up with it
> :/
>
> I'd definitely be curious to hear what you find out.
>
>
PS -- Network manager, or whatever it is Ubuntu calls it, kept resetting
this, and overwriting my changes, when DHCP stuff would renew. I know there
is a way to stop that, but I had better things to do that day than to
research that.

-- 
Hal
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