On Thursday 26 October 2017 12:13:57 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > 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. > Gee, I wonder why, said Gene to no one in particular ;-)
> 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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
