On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 11:36, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:10 PM Amey Abhyankar <sco1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Recently I observed, couple of Ubuntu 16.04 workstations are getting > > valid IP address from DHCP server but fails to update DNS IP. > > I checked /var/log/kern.log but that isn't showing any interesting > > error regarding networking part. > > > > What is the content of /etc/resolv.conf (soft link file) after boot?
Will give a check shortly. In my Ubuntu 16.04 workstation [with no DNS issue], /etc/resolv.conf output = ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # 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 8.8.8.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The other Ubuntu 16.04 workstations with DNS problem has = nameserver 127.0.1.1 value in /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf > IIRC package 'resolvconf' is part of the Ubuntu base install. > It's possible to configure resolvconf to write specific DNS servers > [a]. I think there are other methods to tell resolvconf to pick up > DNS servers from the DHCP server via Network Manager settings. > > [a] > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128220/how-do-i-set-my-dns-when-resolv-conf-is-being-overwritten > > -- Arun Khan > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > plug-mail@plug.org.in > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail