On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 3:55 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: > >> On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: > >>> I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from > >>> coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally reverted that, > > > > Gene, have you posted what exactly you did to switch from coyote.den to > > home.arpa? You have been told that setting NIS domainname was a wrong > > direction since you do not manage your hosts through NIS. > > > >> NetworkManager keeps updating the /etc/resolv.conf file in my opinion > >> because it is querying the DHCP server. > > [ ... ]> cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/GREMLIN.nmconnection > >> [ipv4] > >> method=auto > gene@coyote:/etc$ cat > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/GREMLIN.nmconnection > cat: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/GREMLIN.nmconnection: No > such file or directory > > Thats this machine, but applied to the problematic machine it becomes > sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/'Wired connection > 1.nmconnection' > which returns: > ========== > gene@bananapim55:/etc/systemd$ sudo cat > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/'Wired connection 1.nmconnection' > [connection] > id=Wired connection 1 > uuid=14621305-9887-3c6c-9e50-50894877ab68 > type=ethernet > autoconnect-priority=999 > interface-name=eth0 > timestamp=1698571927 > > [ethernet] > cloned-mac-address=BE:63:9C:35:DD:4F > duplex=full > speed=1000 > > [ipv4] > address1=192.168.71.55/24,192.168.71.1 > dns=192.168.71.1; > dns-search=hosts;nameserver; > ignore-auto-routes=true > may-fail=false > method=manual > route1=192.168.71.1/24,192.168.71.1 > Try adding ignore-auto-dns=true with this setting you should not need to make resolv.conf immutable. You may also want to add a default gateway route. > [ipv6] > addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy > method=disabled > > [proxy] > ======== > All of which now looks totally legit once /etc/resolv.conf was made > immutable. As an aside, I have yet to see a complaint from modern NM > when it finds that file cannot be changed. When it was new, many > generations ago, it had a cow quite regularly. Then the only way to > clean up the logs was to rm the executable. It, when new, was not > removable by apt as it took the rest of the system with it. So I've > always looked at NM as something looking for a problem I didn't have. A > Karen to be removed by whatever means worked. A root rm usually solved > it all. So for me, its still, in the year of our lord 2023, a PITA. A > hosts file for local lookups, with anything not found there forwarded to > my ISP's dns server is all I've ever needed. And it has not changed in > 25 years. To me, dhcp is a total waste of cpu cycles. > > > > Gene has no DHCP server, so it should be method=manual. Frankly > > speaking, I see almost no advantages of NetworkManager over ifupdown in > > a purely static network. E.g. cable plug/unplug events should not matter > > since there is no need to update configuration in response. > > > > . > > 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, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀