Hi On Wednesday 02 June 2010 11:19:06 Bruno Girin wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:50 +0100, Conn O'Griofa wrote: > > Hi Kurt, > > [snip] > > > As you can see from the community instructions, you need to edit your > > /etc/resolv.conf and add the local machine's address (127.0.0.1) as > > your first nameserver. This is a problem because any changes to this > > file will be overwritten by NetworkManager each time it initializes a > > new connection (which is warned in the commented section of the file). > > The only solution that I am aware of, is to edit your active network > > connection in NetworkManager's applet, change the setting from > > "Automatic (DHCP)" to "Automatic (DHCP) addresses only", and then > > manually input your DNS servers like so: "127.0.0.1, <your regular DNS > > server 1>, <your regular DNS server 1>". > > And this in turn would break configurations where the DHCP server > provides the name of the DNS server to clients when they connect. Such a > configuration is extremely common for any network where people are > transient (public and semi-public networks like libraries, company > networks where users move from office to office, etc).
When using DNS provided by DHCP the solution is easy. NetworkManager uses dhclient; so the solution is simply to make the change there. In /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf the line: prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; should be present. This will make all programs use dnsmasq by default; and dnsmasq does by default filter out the 127.0.0.1 address and use the servers provided by DHCP. I haven't tested what happens, if you give NetworkManager static DNS addresses; I suppose you would then not use dnsmasq. So we need to find a way to make it work in that case. [snip] Cheers, Andreas - - - ,-¤. Kubuntu Linux ¤ ; http://www.kubuntu.org `-¤' Linux for Human Beings -- 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
