On Sun September 27 2009, Celejar wrote: > IIUC, on a basic installation, nothing should be touching resolv.conf > except for things that you configure explicitly. There are several > packages that will alter it: resolvconf, IIUC, the GUI network > configuration utilities (NM, wicd, etc), and anything you put > in /etc/network/interfaces.
I just installed freenx, but that was after 8/30, when the resolv.conf file was modified. > What network configuration utilities do > you have installed? What's your interfaces file? I uninstalled network-manager long ago, I have been manually editing interfaces since almost the beginning. dpkg --list|grep network rc gnome-nettool 2.22.0-1 network information tool for GNOME ii iftop 0.17-8 displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface ii ifupdown 0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure network interfaces ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control tools ii iputils-ping 3:20071127-1 Tools to test the reachability of network hosts ii libnet1 1.1.2.1-2 library for the construction and handling of network packets ii libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl 0.10.ds-1 Perl extension for manipulating IPv4 addresses ii libnm-glib0 0.6.6-3 network management framework (GLib shared library) ii libqt4-network 4.4.3-1 Qt 4 network module ii librplay3 3.3.2-11.1 Shared libraries for the rplay network audio system ii libsdl-net1.2 1.2.7-2 network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libsdl-net1.2-dev 1.2.7-2 Development files for SDL network library ii net-tools 1.60-22 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system rc network-manager 0.6.5-3 network management framework daemon rc network-manager-gnome 0.6.5-3 network management framework (GNOME frontend) rc ntop 3:3.3-11+b2 display network usage in web browser ii python-ipy 1:0.62-1 Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and networks ii pyzor 1:0.4.0+cvs20030201-8 spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network ii razor 1:2.85-1 spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network ii tcpdump 3.9.8-4 A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition ii tightvncserver 1.3.9-4 virtual network computing server software ii traceroute 2.0.11-2 Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network ii wireshark 1.0.2-3+lenny5 network traffic analyzer ii wireshark-common 1.0.2-3+lenny5 network traffic analyser (common files) ii xfce4-netload-plugin 0.4-3 network load monitor plugin for the Xfce4 panel ii xtightvncviewer my interfaces file has a static setup that I NORMALLY use, and a DHCP setup when I am..working on stuff, like adding a router, troubleshooting.. #new dhcp setup iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 dns-nameserver 208.67.222.222 dns-nameserver 208.67.220.220 dns-nameserver 192.168.1.254 # static setup #auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet static #address 192.168.10.2 #netmask 255.255.255.0 #gateway 192.168.10.1 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org