An interesting, accidental FYI on the subject of the resolvconf package: Just now I upgraded an Ubuntu 17.04 test machine which was fully upgraded only ten days ago. I see in the pending upgrade details that resolvconf is "No longer supported by Canonical" since the previous upgrade.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:54 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2017-10-26 at 11:35, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 08:31:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> > >>> and made immutable. Particularly is the fact that /etc/resolv.conf > isn't > >>> a link to something else but contains: > >>> > >>> nameserver 192.168.XX.1 > >>> search host dns > >>> domain coyote.den > >> > >> Please stop posting that, it uses incorrect syntax > > > > The 'search host dns' line? How do you set that order? I couldn't find > > that from a bit of surfing, and I'd like to have name lookups work in > > that order... > > As was explained later on in this thread (and, I presume, would have > been explained to Gene previously in other threads), you set that search > order in /etc/nsswitch.conf, not in /etc/resolv.conf. > > 'man nsswitch.conf' documents the file, but all you should probably need > to do is look at the existing file, and tweak the 'hosts' line > appropriately. > > > If what you want is "search /etc/hosts, then search DNS, then give up", > the 'hosts' line you want is: > > hosts: files dns > > There are additional options that might make sense, but that's the most > basic form. > > > My own nsswitch.conf hosts entry, which IIRC is fairly bog-standard > except maybe for a bit of reordering, reads: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > which, according to my understanding, simply adds a few additional types > of DNS lookup into the series before giving up. > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
