[Wylug-help] Re: NetworkManager & resolv.conf

[Dave Fisher]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:45:54AM +0100, Smylers wrote:
> > it's been around ever since then.
> 
> So that would date the bug to 1997 or 1998.
> 
> Which means you're being ridiculous.  NetworkManager is currently less
> than 3 years old.  The bug can't possibly have existed before the
> software was even written!

Unless the bug is actually further down the network stack.

I haven't had time to follow this thread properly, but I was going to
report that I'd witnessed similar dhcp/resolv.conf behaviour on wired
networks ... and I've never knowingly used network manager.

The problem that I've observed appears to be related to ifup and ifdown,
since my usual workaround is to restart the network interfaces using them
directly. It looks like the networking script in /etc/init.d doesn't
fully start/stop/restart some interfaces in some circumstances.

As you note in your case, my problem is intermittent, and it's a while
since I've seen it, but my (admittedly dodgy) memory suggests that the
ifup/ifdown workaround usually works.

Dave