hi, folks.

this is a puzzle; it's something that has happened occasionally for years
but now has become frequent enough to be an annoyance, and i do not know
enough about the mechanisms involved even to begin to troubleshoot it.

here's what happens: i am going merrily along and doing my work when i send
an email message or go to a webpage and get errors that the host could not
be found -- the usual dns error. when this happens i use the handy system
settings network configurator and invariably discover that all the
nameservers that i have listed are now gone. i presume that this
application writes to /erc/resolv.conf (which is now a link to a
resolv.conf someplace else, in /run/resolv.conf, which is heaven knows
where but i suppose is one of those virtualized filesystems the boys are
so proud of).

anyway, i usually keep three domain nameservers there, just in case one
goes down. something is causing them to disappear.

i haven't fiddled with this stuff since resolv.conf was hard-coded such
that you'd su root, edit /etc/resolv.conf, save the file, and be happy
evermore. but now the file says not to edit it because it will be
overwritten anyway.

so. any guesses as to what might be making my list of nameservers
disappear? that failing, any good recipe for troubleshooting it to see who
is eating my nameservers? and if not that, is there anyplace i can put
them so that they won't get overwritten?

thanks very much and merry christmas, everybody!
--
dep

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