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

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, 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'd imagine it's NetworkManager that's doing this, but I know not how to tweak
it to do what you want.

jh

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