Correct, this is the expected workaround for setting custom additional
DNS rather than replacing everything -- this is because DNS really does
come from DHCP and should normally be correct; and there are other
facilities available to configure special requirements.
The other easy way to configure such a thing is to use resolvconf to
manage /etc/resolv.conf. This is especially true for newer Ubuntu
releases, as resolvconf may be quite buggy in some older ones.
Unfortunately, Intrepid has been EOL now since April 30, 2010; and since
there is no package archive remaining for this release, there is no way
to provide further updates (which means it's not worth the effort of
fixing a bug if there is one). Because there are other tools meant to
take care of the DNS domainname additions better than NetworkManager,
and also workarounds using resolvconf (and probably others) I'm closing
this bug as Won't Fix.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334265
Title:
No GUI way to edit dns suffixes without manually setting *all* dns
info
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Binary package hint: network-manager
A network I regularly connect to doesn't, using DHCP, give me all the
DNS suffixes I need. I therefore want to manually add the extra DNS
suffixes so that they're added whenever I join the network.
Under Hardy, I could create a profile with the additional suffixes in
the network settings dialog which I could re-apply whenever I joined
that particular network (annoying that I had to keep reapplying it but
at least it worked).
However, I'm now on Intrepid (Thinkpad T61p) and the GUI dialogs have
changed. It seems as if the only way to add the suffixes in the GUI is
to add all the DNS info (et addresses) manually as well - which I
don't want.
On the command line I can do the following:
1) edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
2) prepend domain-name "southampton.example.com example.com ";
Then every time dns is updated by whatever the network provides, it prepends
with those values.
Which is great but a bit obscure to set.
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