[Wylug-help] /etc/resolv.conf Being Overwritten

[Dave Fisher]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:46:01PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
> Hi.  I'm using the wireless internet on a National Express train, on an
> Ubuntu laptop.  Every minute or so something is re-writing
> /etc/resolv.conf, with National Express's name-server details (as you'd
> expect it to do when connecting).
> 
> This is tiresome, because I've got a VPN connection which added some
> additional name-servers (and hostname suffixes) to that file when it
> connected, and those got removed whenever the file was first re-written.
> I keep copying the resolv.conf I want back over National Express's, but
> that's hardly convenient.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I go static (using the leased IP address) and run my own copy of bind
(i.e. set nameserver to 127.0.0.1).

Works sometimes ... I keep a 3G modem for the other times.


Dave