[PLUG] Controlling resolv.conf...

[Ben Koenig]

Wow, thunderbird chopped my email into pieces. Thanks to crapzilla for
mangling my email draft.

Question was answered, and I'm too tired to explain the role NM plays
in a linux distro..


On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 5:34 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > /etc/resolv.conf is not symlinked on every distro, and is not even unique to
> > linux. It is not a symlink on my system, and is being overwritten by
> > NetworkManager. Fun fact:  The decisions of Canonical are not canonical.
>
> FWIW, when my portables (all running Slackware) connect to someone's wifi
> hot spot (hotel, coffee shop, etc.) /etc/resolv.conf is always overwritten
> to fit their server's DNS settings. Each of my portables contains a copy of
> the default file named /etc/resolv.conf.office which is copied to
> /etc/resolv.conf when I return. This allows me to use the portables on the
> LAN (including accessing the 'Net). It's worked for years.
>
> Rich
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