GetRidOfEtcResolvConf
Revision 2 as of 2006-11-07 20:14:07
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Launchpad entry: https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/get-rid-of-etc-resolv-conf
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Summary
Rationale
DNS configuration in /etc/resolv.conf gets clobbered by automatic network management tools (dhclient, network-manger, etc). There needs to be a mechanism to handle DNS updates that does not destroy custom changes in /etc/resolv.conf.
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Data preservation and migration
Unresolved issues
- Whatever approach is taken it needs to allow chroot environments to get online. Copying /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot used to work, but since the /etc/resolvconf stuff this has been difficult in situations such as automatically setting up a chroot system on a non-root partition, since linking (hard or soft) the file doesn't work and it must be done manually (which therefore is not "automatically setting up") I hope this is the right place to air my concerns. -- Warbo