On Mon 02 Oct 2017 at 21:32:40 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:15:16AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 02 Oct 2017 at 10:00:28 (+0300), Reco wrote: > > > > > To bring order to this chaos, you'll need this e/n/i: > > > > > > auto enp4s0 > > > iface enp4s0 inet dhcp > > > dns-nameserver 8.8.4.4 > > > dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 > > > > > > Please note the indentation, > > > > … which looks tidy, but the indentation carries no meaning > > (lest people spend time fiddling with it thinking that it does). > > While the indentation is ignored by ifupdown indeed, it carries > invaluable meaning to human beings. > In this particular case, the meaning is: > > Both "dns-nameserver" stanzas are applied to enp4s0 interface only, not > that other one, and even not the one you want it to apply to.
… which is precisely the delusion. > Also, one should promote neatness in configuration files. By all means. But this is just as tidy without adding meaningless "meanings": ########## Primary network interface ########## auto enp4s0 iface enp4s0 inet dhcp dns-nameserver 8.8.4.4 dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 ########## Bridging stuff ##################### [… … …] Cheers, David.
