On 5/8/22 07:45, Haines Brown wrote:
I do not know how long ago it was, but some of my mail started to go out without an envelop sender address. I've not yet been able to figure why, but one thing I don't like is the appearance of my /etc/resolv.conf file. It looks like this:nameserver 192.168.254.254 search home domain home The 192.1683.254.254 is my router. I assume that "home' is useless. I installed resolvcom, ran it with a -u option and rebooted. All this did was to remove the domain line from resolv.conf. How is resolv.conf supposed to get the name of my ISP? I suppose from my router. The router knows what Frontier SSID it is using and the connection type is DHCP via 802.1x. It says public LAN is disabled. But it appends -16 to my host name. My mail problem may have started when Frontier replaced my router. I installed resolvcon, ran it and rebooted. All it did was to remove the domain line. It used to be that for both the search and domian lines was found the name of my ISP (Frontier.com). This seemd to work. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Years ago I became fed up with too many applications and installations corrupting my resolv.conf. I type in a resolv.conf using an editor.
domain billshome search billshome nameserver 10.0.0.252My router knows about the domain (DD-WRT Linksys) and will promote an unresolved search to the WAN port as per BIND standards.
To prevent the file from being corrupted by other applications: --> I keep a copy in /etc/src--> I check in the bind boot (init.d) script with diff and copy the src file if needs be. --> I look for any init scripts that toy with the file and alter them if possible. --> If you make the file a symbolic link, most scripts seem to ignore altering it.
Hope this helps.
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