On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:34:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:31:31 -0400 > Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop, though it worked > > perfectly well on the server it wifi-ed to. > > After some pinging and checking connections, I found this on my > > laptop. > > > > The file /etc/resolv.conf: > > > > # Generated by Connection Manager > > nameserver ::1 > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > > > Now why would the connection manager (conman) suddenly be setting my > > nameserver to localhost? A few days ago everything worked. > > > > Editing that file and replacing 127.0.0.1 by 8.8.8.8 and everything > > worked again. Until the next time the commection manager needs to > > connect, presumably. > > > > -- hendrik > > Hi Hendrik, > > It isn't just conman: It's all these silly "we do it all for you" > networking helpers. I just do this: > > chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf > > Until Helpful Lennart decides his software should undo the +i or throw > a hissyfit about not being able to change it, everything's cool.
Does conman, the connection manager, originate from Helpful Lennart? I thought it was just something that came with lxqt. And doesn't the DNS IP number on a mobile device like a laptop normally come from the DHCP protocol? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
