every reboot screws up my network

[Basil Chupin]

Thanks.

BC



On 30/03/12 17:59, Patrick Asselman wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>
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