Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 440570
inappropriate overwriting of /etc/resolv.conf when named running
Last modified: 2008-06-16 23:04:55 EDT
Description of problem: When named is started, NetworkManager overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with a config file directing resolution to localhost even though the localhost nameserver may not be configured to act as a recursive resolver. When running an authoritative-only nameserver, recursion may still need to be handled by another machine (or another process listening on another address). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.4.2-3.fc7 NetworkManager-0.6.6-1.fc7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the bind package, configured with "recursion no;". 2. start named 3. attempt resolution ("dig www.nytimes.com a") Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Adam; how does one know if named is running in caching mode or not? I'm not sure I understand the specific configuration being used here...
(In reply to comment #1) > Adam; how does one know if named is running in caching mode or not? I'm not > sure I understand the specific configuration being used here... Hm, you can configure named anyway and in some cases named acts as authoritative-only server so you cannot use it as local resolver. Find if named runs in "caching mode" is very different. There is huge amount of options whose modify it. I think the best way how solve this is add some option to NM and use named as local resolver if user explicitly wants it (in specific configuration cases). Additionaly I can revive caching-nameserver package and if this package is installed named runs as local caching server and NM will use it as local resolver. Do you have any better idea?
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