every reboot screws up my network

[Patrick Asselman]

 Like I said, personal experience on a server.
 If you don't believe me: 
 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=resolv.conf+networkmanager

 Best regards,
 Patrick Asselman

 On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:54:00 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> And what firm reasons do you have to say, "It might be due to this
> brilliant thing called networkmanager...."?
>
> If you express an opinion then you should also provide reasons for
> this opinion.
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> BC
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> On 30/03/12 17:22, Patrick Asselman wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:58:00 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Bowler wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:15:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> It might be due to this brilliant thing called networkmanager which 
>> was probably invented for laptops using dhcp, but it will readily 
>> overwrite your resolve.conf with an empty one on a static ip machine. 
>> (If someone can explain the logic behind that please let me know!) It 
>> bit me really hard on a remote server that i manage... it lost all 
>> access to the outside world. Google for "resolv.conf networkmanager". 
>> I think the 'solution' is to make resolv.conf non-writeable for root.
>>
>> If I ever meet the guy who implemented this networkmanager I'm 
>> inclined to do something evil to him!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Patrick Asselman
>>
>>>
>>>> On 3/29/2012 8:42 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 3/29/2012 8:13 AM, Bruce Bowler wrote:
>>>>>> Running 11.04 and every time I reboot, resolv.conf gets screwed 
>>>>>> up.
>>>>>> I've tried a couple of different things, but none of them 
>>>>>> works...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) changed the IPv4 settings from network tools to do "automatic
>>>>>> (dhcp) addressed only" and set the DNS servers and Search 
>>>>>> domains
>>>>>> appropriately.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) modified /etc/resolv.conf/resolv.conf.d/head to specify the
>>>>>> appropriate search and nameserver directives
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After a reboot /etc/resolv.conf is no longer a symlink and does 
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> contain any nameserver entries (it does have the proper search
>>>>>> directive).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can manually re-establish the symlink and things work 
>>>>>> properly, but
>>>>>> that's obviously not a viable long term solution...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is this on a server Bruce? I had the same problem with my server
>>>>> install and the fix was to put a newer resolv.conf (from 12.04) 
>>>>> package
>>>>> in. Unfortunately I didn't save the instructions but if you can 
>>>>> search
>>>>> this list you should be able to find the thread. I don't have 
>>>>> that many
>>>>> posts so you could search for my name. I think it was about 3 or 
>>>>> 4
>>>>> months ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It's version 1.63ubuntu3 of resolvconf.
>>>
>>> Thanks Knute, I'll give that a try.  FWIW, it's a desktop, not a 
>>> server,
>>> running as a VM (vmware).
>>>
>>> Bruce
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