NetworkManager

[Dimi Paun]

From: "Dan Williams" <dcbw at redhat.com>

> It does work with any static IP address you have configured with
> system-config-network.  It will apply the IP & DNS configuration you've
> selected using system-config-network Profiles on startup.  NM blows away
> your /etc/resolv.conf because it uses a local caching nameserver to deal
> with horrible glibc resolver dropouts when network switches occur.
> That's not likely to change, what may change would be the ability to add
> custom entries to the caching nameserver's config.

That's fine, but the current behaviour is rather brutal: you start it and
everything stops working. That can't be good.

At the very least can you back-up resolv.conf, and maybe restore it when
you shut NM down? I guess that can happen even in the init.d script.

Ideally, NM should migrate the content of resolv.conf to bind, so that
starting/stopping NM becomes seemless. Also a more explanatory message
in the overriden resolv.conf would be appreciated.

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.