Thomas Hood wrote: > interfaces(5): > > Read the passages on mapping.
Ok, point taken. It is much much more complicated than I believed. Guess I need to anticipate beyond Linux. >> [...] >> Would that break the system? > And listing an obsolete nameserver address only has the effect of delaying the > name service failure condition by a few seconds. These issues are minor > compared with the problem of resolv.conf *lacking* nameserver addresses that > *are* in the original file. That's what will bring the pitchfork-armed admins > to our > doors. And since we talk about a specific case of upgrading really, either the addresses are already obsolete or not. So that should not make things really worse. I guess the conditional link-to-tail solution sounds like the way forward then. Thanks for the reference to the other bug. That is handled over there then. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923685 Title: New resolver package overwrites manually created resolv.conf on server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/923685/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
