On Tuesday 24 October 2017 23:02:39 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:52:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >But since its worked flawlessly for years, please explain what IS > > wrong with it. > > We've been over this before. Your "search host dns" line doesn't do > anything at all as written, but will screw things up if copied in a > different order by someone who doesn't know that it's simply broken. > That still doesn't specify what IS wrong. Reading the now 5+ year old man page, the only change I might make is to change the dns string to nameserver. IP changed host to hosts too.
My local network now pings at the same elapsed times as before. Shrug. > >Just saying its wrong doesn't cut it in the face of the fact > >that I did it in self-defense against NM back when NM first came out, > >what, a decade ago and was not then removeable with anything but a > > root session of rm. The package managers insisted on gutting the > > system if you wanted it gone back then. > > Really, rants about something that may or may not have happened 10 > years ago are just a waste of time. > Is it? When I see victims of this stuff posting weekly on every machine list I'm on and you folks can't solve their problems, what exactly am I supposed to think? If it waddles and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. > If you're looking for instructions on how to use resolvconf, others > have posted it in the recent past. Since you seem to just want to > complain about it, I'm not sure what else to offer. What you are missing is that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and I prefer the simplest, and fastest way. Eg, hard code it, make it immutable, and get on with the real work. I just scanned my network, and only one machine, an r-pi-3b actually has a resolvconf man page, its running jessie. A recent stretch install on a rock64 probably needs the man pages installed. However, the executable has not been found by locate. I'm outta here for some zz's. > Mike Stone Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
