Hmmm, this might be a bad defaults in Ubuntu 12.04 let me give a little background on the configs.
On the network I have a DHCP server setup, giving out IP's, and the DHCP config file has the options: option domain-name "xyz.com"; option domain-name-servers 209.51.128.19, 63.247.77.198; When installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I do a virgin install of ubuntu, then run the install.sh script for www.virtualmin.com Logging into SSH I test local DNS: ping google.com and I get DNS lookup. Checking it's /etc/resolv.conf it has: nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 209.51.128.19 domain xyz.com search xyz.com (not sure why I'm not getting both DNS servers from the DHCP server but I guess that's for another ticket) --------------------------- Repeat the process on Ubuntu 12.04 virgin install of ubuntu, then run the install.sh script for www.virtualmin.com Logging into SSH I test local DNS: ping google.com and I get no DNS resolution. Checking it's /etc/resolv.conf it has: # 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 127.0.0.1 search xyz.com ------------ So I guess my two questions are: 1) Why isn't resolvconf (or whatever is reading the DNS settings from the DHCP server) on Ubuntu 10.04 putting both DNS servers from the DHCP server into it's local resolv.conf 2) Why isn't resolvconf (or whatever is reading the DNS settings from the DHCP server) on Ubuntu 12.04 putting both DNS servers from the DHCP server into it's local resolv.conf I'm guessing we're somehow dealing with an interaction of the BIND server that virtualmin installs, and: > Please note that if a local nameserver is running and the loopback address > 127.0.0.1 has been > registered with resolvconf then (normally) resolvconf only lists that one > address in resolv.conf. > This has been known to confuse people. but having BIND server installed shouldn't be affecting the local DNS lookups, it's a stand-alone bind server... If it's the Virtualmin script doing something with the resolvconf initialization, then I can report this issue with the Virtualmin team but I'm having a feeling it's not. ------------ Thanks for the info on nmcli(1) :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045616 Title: DHCP server handing out DNS server addresses but DHCP client does not write these to resolv.conf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/1045616/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
