Handling resolv.conf on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2014-06-16 10:15, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le 15/06/2014 17:41, Tom H a écrit :
>> If you'd like to disable resolvconf:
>>
>> 1) Remove "dns-nameserver[s]" from "/etc/network/interfaces"
>>
>> 2) Change "/etc/resolv.conf" into a file and populate it with
>> "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
>>
>> 3) Run "echo manual > /etc/init/resolv.override"
>
> I tried to do as you suggested. resolv.conf still gets overwritten
> upon reboot. And as a side effect, SSH login also "hangs" for  what
> seems to be an eternity.
>
> So the lesser evil seems to be to put all the stuff in
> /etc/network/interfaces and restart the whole server when I want to
> make changes to resolv.conf.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
>
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Niki,

You may want to look into something called "network manager". That is 
probably what is overwriting your resolv.conf

It made me swear too the first time it happened to me!

For a server setup, you can probably disable network manager. But 
please read up on it before acting.

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman