On Wednesday 25 October 2017 08:35:56 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I just gave you a solution to your underlying problem, which *uses* > >> the infrastructure rather than fighting it. I won't force you to > >> use it, tho. > > > > I thought the canonical method which was discussed in the > > Depends on "method to do what?". > > A static resolv.conf is basically a concept from the past when mobile > devices were the exception and there was hence no need for resolv.conf > to be dynamic. Nowadays the reverse is true, so we had to change the > design of the system such that resolv.conf is now dynamic and shared > between competing uses. It's easier to use this new infrastructure to > handle the static case, as I described, than to try and provide some > way to disable this new infrastructure. > > E.g. your solution removes one source of changes to resolv.conf, but > some other may still be around or may show up in the future and you'll > be back at square one. > > Also the solution I showed has the advantage that when he stops his > bind deamon, he still gets his host names resolved (via the > DHCP-provided DNS server). > Even for shop.coyote.den? I think not. That dhcp provided nameserver has never in its life seen a coyote.den. It sees and searches ONLY the registered names. So blanket statements like that are wrong.
> Anyway, w.r.t "canonical", my solution is taken straight from the > solution used by dnsmasq_2.76-5+deb9u1_all.deb for that same problem. > I'd actually expect that the `bind` Debian package provides a similar > solution ... and indeed the `bind9` package does in /etc/init.d/bind9: > > if [ "X$RESOLVCONF" != "Xno" ] && [ -x /sbin/resolvconf ] > ; then echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" | /sbin/resolvconf -a lo.named fi > > so maybe all the OP has to do, really, is to install `resolvconf` and > the problem will be ... resolved (save for the configuration of the > "search" which he'll have to do by hand, e.g. with > > echo "search foo.bar" | resolvconf -a lo.manual > > in /etc/rc.local). > > > Stefan 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>
