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