I’m guessing that your questions might be answered by reading the comments in your resolv.conf file, especially the part about it being autogenerated and the part about a manual page.
Usually, personal computers ( contrast with servers ) use DHCP to configure their network settings. I’m guessing that is the case here. See these sources for more details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-dhcp.html https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781119689010/c11.xhtml Regards, - Robert On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 5:33 PM American Citizen <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all: > > The past few days I have been trying to fix some problems with internet > tranmissions not going correctly > > I just now discovered a mysterious name server connection in my > resolv.conf file which I have no understanding off. I keep editing the > resolv.conf file and it keeps reappearing > > nameserver 10.18.0.1 > > Here is the resolv.conf file > > ### /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to /run/netconfig/resolv.conf > ### autogenerated by netconfig! > # > # Before you change this file manually, consider to define the > # static DNS configuration using the following variables in the > # /etc/sysconfig/network/config file: > # NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST > # NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS > # NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER > # or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting: > # NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY='' > # > # See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation. > # > ### Call "netconfig update -f" to force adjusting of /etc/resolv.conf. > nameserver 10.18.0.1 > nameserver 208.67.222.222 > nameserver 208.67.220.220 > > ------------ > > How do I fix this and how do I discover where this mysterious 10.18.0.1 > address is coming from? > > I am using network manager under the openSuse Leap 15.4 OS. > > Randall > > >
