You have been subscribed to a public bug: We're noticing this on every server we're installing Precise dailys on for sniff testing.
First, we use DHCP exclusively in the certification labs for assigning IP info to machines. So while Stefan Bader ran into this with his static IP setup (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/923685) we're seeing it with our dhcp set up. This is new behaviour also, I do not believe this was an issue in earlier Precise images, (alpha 2) so this seems to have been introduced since then. At some point, I assume during the install, the system /etc/resolv.conf is created using information gathered from the dhcp server and it gets a single entry that looks like this: nameserver 10.XXX.XXX.XXX However, as soon as resolvconf is installed, this all gets replaced by the resolvconf files, and our working resolv.conf becomes /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original, which is ignored by resolvconf. After this, we get a useless resolvconf file that points to localhost: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # 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 nameserver 127.0.0.1 search example.org Now, looking into /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d, there are three files: base, head and original. ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d$ cat base ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d$ cat head # 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 ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d$ cat original nameserver 10.189.84.1 ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d$ so right now, by default, resolvconf is breaking resolv.conf on dhcp setups (this is epidemic across our test labs) I CAN resolve (no pun intended) this by simply replacing /etc/resolv.conf with /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original but that's only a very temporary bandaid and NOT desired as a resolution. ** Affects: bind9 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- resolvconf creating bogus resolv.conf file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bind9 in Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
