On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:42 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:55 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> >> Andrew Farris wrote:
> >>> Mike Chambers wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 18:57 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> BUT, the problem seems to be, that after I set it so network didn't
> >>>>> start, and network manager did, that my /etc/resolv.conf file got
> >>>>> emptied and didn't have dns. I had to add it manually. Going to reboot
> >>>>> after sending this email to see if it stays this time. Or does it get
> >>>>> removed each time anyway and this is a bug?
> >>>> The /etc/resolv.conf file does indeed get emptied (file exists, just no
> >>>> info) upon shutdown/boot up. Although the one
> >>>> in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf file is filled
> >>>> out but I am guessing not ready by NM. Soooo, I thought I read about
> >>>> the ifcfg-ethx file having dns info inside it? IF so, what paramaters
> >>>> are used to list it there? DNS seems to be about the only thing so far
> >>>> from NM being completely usable and no configuring at all.
> >>>>
> >>>> Other thatn that, all is well and services seem to start. ALTHOUGH, I
> >>>> have experienced that on shutdown, while shutting down quotas, it stays
> >>>> there and never goes away? Cold boot after to get it going.
> >>> Edit /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ethx and add DNS1, DNS2,
> >>> DNS3, and set PEERDNS=no and networkmanager should pick up and reset
> >>> your resolv.conf based on those cfgs and which is configured (i.e. diff
> >>> interfaces could have diff nameservers). Also see the thread:
> >>> Re: f9 resetting dns nameservers
> >>>
> >> NM does not seem to honor PEERDNS=no
> >
> > What's the expected behavior there for ifup?
>
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt :
>
> PEERDNS=yes|no
> modify /etc/resolv.conf if peer uses msdns extension (PPP only) or
> DNS{1,2} are set, or if using dhclient. default to "yes".
> DNS{1,2}=<ip address>
> provide DNS addresses that are dropped into the resolv.conf
> file if PEERDNS is not set to "no".
>
> PEERDNS=no : do not touch /etc/resolv.conf at all...
I assume then that if one ifcfg is PEERDNS=yes and another is
PEERDNS=no, resolv.conf still gets updated with the information from the
one that is PEERDNS=yes?
Dan
> > For NM, the way it
> > _should_ currently work is:
> >
> > 1) if using DHCP; DNS1..3 will override whatever the DHCP server sends
> > you
> >
> > 2) if using static: you must specify DNSX or else you won't get DNS
> > servers
> >
> > The problem is that we can't pull DNS servers from the existing
> > resolv.conf, because stuff rewrites resolv.conf. We need to store DNS
> > information in the ifcfg files so that when more than one connection
> > gets brought up, we can merge the information from both of those
> > connections into a suitable resolv.conf.
> >
> > What might be a good thing to do is honor PEERDNS=no for a
> > connection/ifcfg such that NM just won't use anything that an automatic
> > configuration method (like DHCP or PPP) returns for that connection.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
>
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