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.

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