Wow, thunderbird chopped my email into pieces. Thanks to crapzilla for mangling my email draft.
Question was answered, and I'm too tired to explain the role NM plays in a linux distro.. On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 5:34 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > /etc/resolv.conf is not symlinked on every distro, and is not even unique to > > linux. It is not a symlink on my system, and is being overwritten by > > NetworkManager. Fun fact: The decisions of Canonical are not canonical. > > FWIW, when my portables (all running Slackware) connect to someone's wifi > hot spot (hotel, coffee shop, etc.) /etc/resolv.conf is always overwritten > to fit their server's DNS settings. Each of my portables contains a copy of > the default file named /etc/resolv.conf.office which is copied to > /etc/resolv.conf when I return. This allows me to use the portables on the > LAN (including accessing the 'Net). It's worked for years. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
