F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:47 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:23:49 +1100
> David Timms wrote:
> 
> > Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:32:08 -0500
> > > McGuffey, David C. wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Update: Intermittent dns is still present.
> > > 
> > > I'd strongly suspect this is NM getting the resolv.conf file
> > > correct on initial connect, then screwing it up on
> > > subsequent DHCP lease renewal.
> > I get the no entries in /etc/resolv.conf directly after logging in 
> > (workaround - an NM entry with static IP, and dns). Is there a more 
> > permanent fix for Fedora 10 (upgraded from F9) ?
> 
> In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> I have the line:
> 
> PEERDNS=no
> 
> which (in theory) prevents NM from doing anything at all to
> the resolv.conf file when acting on that interface (of course
> you then have to make sure you set resolv.conf yourself).

I thought NM had a know bug where it did not yet respect the PEERDNS=no
entry.

Has this been fixed?

The only (and most unfortunate) way I have been able to reliably keep my
resolf.conf file from getting waxed by NM has been to set it as
immutable. A _very_ nasty way of doing things, but it does work.

Cheers,

Chris
 
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