On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 17:47 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > AFAIK NetworkManager is the most common tool which keeps writing > > > to /etc/resolv.conf file during runtime. Such a solution makes it hard > > > to support configurations where rootfs in read-only most of the time. > > > > > > That's why I'm considering moving the resolv.conf file to /var. I'm not > > > sure about the exact location there but /var seems much better for > > > non-static resolver configs. > > > > > > I think that the best solution would be to patch glibc so it will first > > > try to load 'dynamic' resolv.conf from /var, and then fallback to > > > static configs in /etc. > > > > > > I'd really appreciate any kind of feedback on that idea. > > > > Having resolv.conf in /etc also prevents read-only root, thus /var is > > actually a better place for it since it's really a composite of various > > information and can change at will. Lennart wrote a blog post a month > > or so ago about moving it somewhere, I forget where, but you might read > > that post as well. I'll take a patch that allows you to pass > > --with-resolv-conf-file-path=<whatever> which shouldn't be too hard to > > do. > > and that is why just pointing it to 127.0.0.1 and running a local DNS > proxy is the best choice ;)
Which I'm a big fan of too, and NM has done for about a year with the dnsmasq local caching nameserver plugin (man NetworkManager.conf). Most setups should probably run a local caching DNS server all the time. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
