On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:14:08AM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: | Every so often, presumably after an apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade, my | /etc/resolv.conf file gets modified, and my DNS stops working. I then | manually edit the file back to how I want, and say to myself, I Really Must | Find Out What Causes That - then forget about it.
Do you use dhcp? dhcp clients tend to rewrite resolv.conf to contain
the data the dhcp server returned. If you use dhcp-client then it is
easy to edit /etc/dh-client to not overwrite the existing file and
even to append all new data as comments.
| Is there a way I can stop this file being modified automatically?
First the cause must be determined.
-D
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