Follow-up to this: I just logged into the VPN for the first time after upgrading to Karmic at home and it kept my default route, didn't replace the nameserver entries, and still added a local route for the VPN over ppp0! Whatever work has gone into NetworkManager between 9.04 and 9.10 I heartily approve!
Thanks! > -----Original Message----- > From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu- > devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ethan Baldridge > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:59 AM > To: Shentino; Morten Kjeldgaard > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton > Subject: RE: Ubuntu Domain Server > > I just edit resolv.conf anyway and fix it the next time it “breaks” > (every time I log into my company VPN, even though I have the PPPoE > client set to not apply DNS settings from the DHCP server). For a > personal computer, I can just keep editing; I have to fix the default > route every time anyway. But it would be nice to know how to “fix” it – > and the routing table – permanently. > > > From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu- > devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Shentino > > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:33 AM > > To: Morten Kjeldgaard > > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton > > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Domain Server > > > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard > <m...@bioxray.au.dk> wrote: > > > > On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > >> > >>>> I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything? > >> > >> I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs. A good UI should > >> improve > >> things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration. > > > > That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices > > and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like. > > > > One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3 > > line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and > > intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network > > configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot. > > > > IIRC, resolvconf leaves a big fat #AUTOGENERATED, DO NOT EDIT comment > line >in the file, so at least any potential conf-file monkeys looking > to poke around are clued in, and presumably a short operation can tell > resolvconf to go away or at least disable itself. > > > > There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a > laptop > > and hundreds of workstations. > > > > -- Morten > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss