Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 103932
sortlist entries in /etc/resolv.conf get clobbered
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:25 EDT
Description of problem: sortlist entries added to /etc/resolv.conf get clobbered by the redhat-config-network GUI Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.0.4-2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.edit /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf to contain a sortlist entry 2.start up the redhat-config-nework GUI and go to the DNS page 3.hit cancel Actual results: sortlist entries in resolv.conf get trashed Expected results: GUI should ignore but preserve entries it doesn't understand Additional info: Occasionally something re-generates /etc/resolv.conf from preferences buried somewhere in /etc/sysconfig, especially when using PPP as the primary network interface. So adding sortlist entires to /etc/resolv.conf is out of the question. It is interesting that such entries in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf also get trashed by the GUI.
could it be, that pppd changes your /etc/resolv.conf? I think pppd moves /etc/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf.bak ... If you start r-c-n it takes /etc/resolv.conf as the actual system state and copies it to the default profile /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
Yes, quite possible. Something is creating /etc/resolv.conf.save at the start of the PPP session, there is nothing in the pppd manpage about this, don't have the soruce rpm handy right now to grep for this behavior. Apparently the overwrite of /etc/resolv.conf occurs only if /etc/resolv.conf differs from what pppd wants it to be. A new /etc/resolv.conf.save is always created at session start, but /etc/resolv.conf is only overwritten if it has custom entries. I'll have to check the pppd source to see what is causing this. Sortlist probably isn't common in most people's setups, but we have enough multi-homed machines with addresses not routed on the normal part of the campus network, that stuff like kerberos starts failing if sortlist isn't in resolv.conf.