On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 17:05 +0100, lee wrote: > apparently network manager continues to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf > with incorrect data. Adjusting it with system-config-network doesn't > help. > > ... and the copies of that file under the different names are all the > same. After some time, /etc/resolv.conf will be empty, and it > sometimes is missing the "search" entry. > > Why is the network manager going crazy and doesn't stick with the > information I'm giving it, and how do I fix this? Name resolution > going down because /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten causes > very annoying interruptions. _EXACTLY_ how are you giving it the data? * Are you configuring network manager, through its own interface? * Are you expecting network manager to handle data that you've manually shoved into /etc/resolv.conf? (That isn't going to work.) * Are you configuring it through your network's DHCP server? Another point that springs to mind: A common problem with people getting random DHCP client configuration is having two DHCP servers running on their LAN. This is a bad idea, unless one of them is configured to work as a slave to the other. It's not unusual for people to connect two devices that can work as a DHCP server, perhaps accidentally; or they thought one the servers was disabled, but it's actually running. I've been using NetworkManager on several different releases, for many years, and I haven't had any of the problems that I see people commonly write about. But I have seen plenty of people trying to bash it about, force it to do something in a daft way, and expect it to work. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
