On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 04:22:52PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > has worked very well since redhat 5.0 in 1998. The only thing I do is > > a chattr +i on resolv.conf so network mangler can't putz with it. And > > That kind of quick&dirty hack is fairly dangerous in the long run: as > they accumulate, they increase the risk that one of them will lead to > a completely unexpected behavior that nobody can predict/understand. > > Quick&dirty hacks are very handy, and I use them on a regular basis, but > if experience has taught me anything its that they have to be short term > and hence accompanied with a parallel effort to try&fix the origin of > the problem.
More to the point, it's not causing Gene's problem with ping and ssh name resolution. unicorn:~$ lsattr /etc/resolv.conf ----i---------e------- /etc/resolv.conf I have the same setup. Whatever is different about Gene's system to cause the issues he's seeing is something else.
