On Tuesday 01 April 2008 23:37:38 L. Gabriel Somlo wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:14:14AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Imagine that I have *two* interfaces, both sit on DHCP configured
> > networks (*different* networks).
> > Here one "deconfig"-ed iface will happily nuke /etc/resolv.conf
> > created by another interface:
>>
> The real question is, who "wins" w.r.t. /etc/resolv.conf when multiple
> dhcp-configured interfaces are up simultaneously ? This is already a
> fun problem for laptops that connect both on wireless and on wired
> ethernet, and it's a trainwreck, ifupdown or not...

This fun problem has already been resolved by resolvconf. I have an 
implementation called openresolv that works on POSIX shells and tools, unlike 
the Debian original.

You can read about it some more here.
http://roy.marples.name/openresolv

Thanks

Roy
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