[NBLUG/talk] overriding networkmanager in ubuntu

[E Frank Ball III]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:23:16AM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
 > On my new Ubuntu install I was about to add "order hosts,bind" to the
 > top of my /etc/resolv.conf file, but there's a note in there telling me
 > it was "created by NetworkManager, do not edit" and no hint about what
 > file I should edit to have my additions included.
 > 
 > In the past I would just ignore it and edit it anyway, but I figured
 > maybe times had changed and systems were smarter or better. So I then
 > opened up the Knetworkmanager and looked at the settings. There's no
 > place to check to make it check the hosts file, and if I add anything
 > besides an ip address to nameservers, it won't let me (hey I had to
 > try).
 > 
 > I also can't find any documentation for networkmanager(other than one
 > page of manpage fluff) or knetworkmanager(not even fluff).
 > 
 > I realize I should just go ahead and manually edit the files, but it
 > will break the system and surely the people who made networkmanager
 > aren't complete fools, there must be a way to add "order hosts,bind"
 > without breaking things.


I've never seen anything like "order hosts,bind" in /etc/resolv.conf.
Normally I'd change /etc/nsswitch.conf and put in "hosts: files dns"
(which is probably the default).

If you use DHCP /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten, but if you have a
static IP you can probably edit it directly.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us