On Monday 25 September 2017 08:56:54 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 06:03:12PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly > > installed Debian Stretch system. It Seems that Firefox can't find a > > DNS server. I am having the same problem with apt-get update. None > > of my mirrors can be reached. > > ls -ld /etc/resolv.conf > cat /etc/resolv.conf > dpkg -l resolvconf network-manager > grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > Ping works just fine. > > pinging what? > > > I can't even reach the other computers > > on my home network if I use their names. IP addresses work OK. > > LAN configuration can be done in several ways. For most small home > LANs, you probably just want to put the IPs and hostnames in > /etc/hosts on each machine. > > For larger or fancier setups, you can configure a private DNS server. > > > I have > > installed resolvconf > > *shudder*
Uncontrollably. > I mean, unless this is a laptop or a tablet or a phone or something. > Then it may be appropriate, because you might actually WANT your > resolv.conf file to be rewritten every time the wind changes > direction. > > For desktop machines with a static internal network configuration, > it's an abomination. And unfortunately it's not the only malevolent > fiend trying to usurp control of your resolv.conf file. There's also > dhclient, and network-manager, and systemd-resolved, and who knows > what else. > > See <https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/dhclient-etcresolvconf-hooks/> for > some of your options. Of course, before you can apply any of those > suggestions, you have to seize back control of your resolv.conf file > in the first place. Make sure it's a FILE and not a symlink, and put > the correct content into it. Make sure name resolution works. Then > choose your favorite solution to keep the file under YOUR control. For me, its a root session, and a "chattr +i resolv.conf" If for some reason you need to edit it later, you'll have to use the -i argument first. As long as that +i bit is set, its protected from everything but a mke2fs. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
