[Voyage-linux] Re: New User, getting started, nfs questions

[Johan Adler]

 <frank at ...> writes:

> > I believe I need the last 2 lines in /etc/resolv.conf from what I read in 
> > another message, but /etc/resolv.conf contains the following:
> > 
> > #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
> > nameserver 127.0.0.1

Regarding the problems with nameserver configuration, /etc/resolv.conf and the 
resolvconf package, I think you may benefit from looking at /etc/hosts too.

I currently use an old Netgear WGT634U running OpenWRT as router, using DNSmasq 
for DHCP/DNS/TFTP/BOOTP and more, so my Alix with Voyage has a dynamic address. 
For some reason my /etc/hosts was suddenly empty, networking failed (DNS), so I 
replaced it with:

---
127.0.0.1       localhost.adlernet.se   localhost
::1     alix    localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1       alix.adlernet.se alix

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
---

which somehow made resolvconf do its thing, creating a working /etc/resolv.conf

> No, this would be lost after reboot. You can:
> 
> - use the dns-nameservers entry in /etc/network/interfaces as above

Sounds like a good idea.

/Johan Adler