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resolvconf package

  1. Bug #923685
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 923685

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote : Re: New resolver package overwrites manually created resolv.conf on server

Thomas Hood wrote:
> interfaces(5):
>
> Read the passages on mapping.

Ok, point taken. It is much much more complicated than I believed. Guess I need to anticipate beyond Linux.

>> [...]
>> Would that break the system?

> And listing an obsolete nameserver address only has the effect of delaying the
> name service failure condition by a few seconds. These issues are minor
> compared with the problem of resolv.conf *lacking* nameserver addresses that
> *are* in the original file. That's what will bring the pitchfork-armed admins to our
> doors.

And since we talk about a specific case of upgrading really, either the addresses are already obsolete or not. So that should not make things really worse. I guess the conditional link-to-tail solution sounds like the way forward then.
Thanks for the reference to the other bug. That is handled over there then.