Handling resolv.conf on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 06/14/2014 01:03 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a public server. Until now I've
> mainly used Slackware for this sort of thing. I'm doing a lot of RTFM to
> see how Ubuntu handles things.
> 
> Right now I'm into configuring DNS with BIND, and something puzzles me.
> The traditional *NIX way of configuring the resolver is to just add a
> line or a couple lines in /etc/resolv.conf. Now Ubuntu doesn't handle
> things that way, and after reading the corresponding section in the
> official documentation, here's what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:
> [...]

On a server you can 'apt-get' purge/remove resolvconf (and
networkmanager if it crept in) and then maintain /etc/network/interfaces
and /etc/resolv.conf the usual *NIX way.

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Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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