[Cialug] resolvconf - good, bad or ugly?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

On my RHEL5 boxes, when doing them manually, I do them like this:

nameserver 217.261.233.2
nameserver 217.261.233.1
search  somedomain.org

It may not apply to Mandriva, but then again, it might.  I always edit
resolv.conf manually.



:) Dave



On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:11 -0600, David Champion wrote:
> So... my latest server update (to Mandriva 2009) includes the change to 
> using the "resolvconf" script for maintaining /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> I recall the good old days when RedHat used the "awesome" program 
> linuxconf to maintain configuration files. And by "awesome", I mean it 
> overwrites config files for you and breaks stuff. The resolvconf script 
> is similarly awesome.
> 
>  From what I can tell, the "proper" way for me to specify DNS servers is 
> to add them to my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script as:
> DNS1=dns1.server.ip.addr
> DNS2=dns2.server.ip.addr
> 
> BTW, the man page for resolvconf is one of those esoteric man pages that 
> talks about all kinds of junk except the pragmatic information one might 
> need to actually USE it.
> 
> Am I doing this right? Am I just being too grumpy? Is it really that 
> hard to edit /etc/resolv.conf?
> 
> -dc
> 
> 
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