The problem is: I can only resolve hosts that are on the eth0 connected LAN ("staff"). To access hosts on the other network I have to use their IP address directly.
This prompts me to request two features (independent of each other):
1. be able to resolve names using both DNSes; 2. that there be some failover for network connections.
By failover I mean being able to define one interface as "primary". The primary interface would set the default gateway and all that global-unique stuff (including resolv.conf, without feature 1.).
When that interface goes down, those global settings are changed to the ones provided by another active interface. If the primary interface goes up again, it restores the initial configuration.
This would be very useful for cases such as a laptop with wired and wireless networking. The "wired" connection would be the primary interface. The "wireless" connection would take over if the "wired" one goes down (they may be different networks, e.g. we have a totally open and untrusted wireless lan and our linux users can't just unplug the cable and move around, they are forced to restart the interfaces).
Both of these work in windows, FYI.
I guess that feature 1. is not at the distro level, however I don't really know where uptream to suggest it.
If feature 2. is feasible I could put it in bugzilla, don't really know under which package though.
Carlos Rodrigues
