Bug 475134

NetworkManager recreated this file. You may turn off the NetworkManager service, if you have an all static setup.

this is a bug bug bug

I open sys-config-network and tell it my gateway,
and it doesn't write DNS1 into ifcfg-eth0,
and thus there is no nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf

It should make NO difference if NetworkManager is running or not.

I use a static IP on my wired ethernet, and DHCP when on wireless.
Wireless is useless in FC without NetworkManager and static IP
is useless WITH NetworkManager...

*If* the solution for an all static setup is to disable NetworkManager (and I think that's definitely not a good solution at all), then at the very least, system-config-network should tell me that, and refuse to allow me to edit/save/... configuration until I do that.

Note: I'm not sure if the bug is that s-c-n doesn't save the DNS fields to ifcfg-eth*, or that NetworkManager doesn't read the global DNS data that s-c-n saves - i.e. it could be a bug against the s-c-n module or the NM module.

That said, if you look at Bug #473002 (which this is probably a dup of), you'll note that s-c-n saves the DNS information to /etc/resolv.conf (well, really /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf which is hard-linked to /etc/resolv.conf) and hence NM trashes it, because it doesn't break the hard-link. The configuration should be saved (by s-c-n) to something other than /etc/resolv.conf (ifcfg-eth* would make sense), so that NM can read that other file when generating /etc/resolv.conf.

I have experienced this on two fresh installs.

I attempted to use s-c-n to config a static network and it didn't work.
I had to use ifconfig until I found out about NetworkManager

The docs say to use NetworkManager so I handed control of all ethernet devices over to it.

Now I have lost DNS and must manually write to resolv.conf

I don't understand what I am supposed to do. This is a bug and makes no sense to close it until it is fixed or explained how I can actually get a static network config working on a fresh install.

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