On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > I renamed /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> Put it back!!
>
> It contains the configuration for loopback (lo) which is really important.
>
> Your interface was NOT listed in /e/n/i so Network Manager grabbed it and
> took over.
>
> You can see this by the way /etc/resolv.conf had been turned into a symlink
> with "Network Manager" in the name, and by the way the contents of that
> symlink said "Network Manager was here".
>
>
Already put back to the way it's supposed to be.

Welp, this has been educational, although I didn't get all the answers I
wanted. But we can stop now, because ... DUH! ... why don't I try a
different computer on this same wire?

And behold! It gets the bad DNS entry also.

I'll go back to my network admin now, and pester him.

Thanks anyway, all!


-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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