[Cialug] resolvconf - good, bad or ugly?

[David Champion]

Yeah... I'm well versed in editing it manually... it's just when you 
reboot, it gets clobbered by the resolveconf script (and maybe when you 
do other things like "service network restart"?). My first clue should 
have been the comment at the top that says:

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by 
resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

I added this comment to /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head:
# add DNS1=xx.xx.xx.xx in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I've seen conf files with those kinds of comments before, but they 
weren't really serious about it... :)

-dc

Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 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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