Since I've been using NetworkManager on my laptop, I've also run into situations where it would have been helpful to have a way of overriding NM's resolv.conf file. In particular when I need to connect to a network with a broken DHCP server that supplies either no name server info or incorrect nameserver info. I'd like to be able to configure a few "custom" name servers and then have something in the little drop-down menu that allows me to select my custom name server in place of whatever NM thinks the name servers should be.
-Steve On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:45, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Filip Miletic wrote: > > Can someone please explain how the NetworkManager creates the > > /etc/resolv.conf? > > > > I run bind on local machine and would like to use localhost as the DNS. > > NM does not like it, apparently. Is it possible to explain gently to NM > > that it should not touch /etc/resolv.conf? > > Not really, because NetworkManager needs to be able to configure DNS on the > machine. If you're using DHCP, the DNS server information comes from the > DHCP > server, and NetworkManager must write that out to /etc/resolv.conf so the > machine can resolve hostnames. If the machine uses static IP, NetworkManager > must still do the same thing. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
