no way to determine DNS or change DNS

Bug #408468 reported by parker

This bug report was converted into a question: question #79136: no way to determine DNS or change DNS.

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Bug Description

Using new install Jaunty 9.04 There is no way to determine what DNS servers it is using and no way to change DNS servers.
This was easy in Gutsy using system settings/network settings. No such options in Jaunty!

In Windows just do cmd /ipconfig/all and it's all there! This is definitely a serious bug and needs to be corrected in future releases.

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote :

This functionality was moved in Network Manager from 'Network settings' to System->Settings->'Network connections'. You can also right click the NetworkManager Icon in your notification area to get the connection details and settings.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
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parker (paco) wrote : Re: [Bug 408468] Re: no way to determine DNS or change DNS

Right click the sys tray icon or System Settings/Network connections
brings up the same 'Manage Network Connections' dialog box.
It only shows 'Wired' and VPN' 'Wired' cannot be edited and there is no
other information. VPN does not work and I think there has been a bug
report about that. I use KVpnc for my VPN.

Previously in Gutsy the System Settings/Network connections brought up a
dialog box that allowed setting static IP or DHCP, routing info and
setting DNS as I said in my bug report I find no way to do this in
Jaunty. I have edited /etc/resolve.conf to add the open DNS servers and
remove the DNS servers supplied by my Chinese ISP. On reboot the open
DNS servers are still there, but so are the Chinese DNS. I would like to
know which one is actually being used and also be able to turn off DHCP
which is how I handled this problem in Gutsy.

The reason that this is important is that many URL's and Google searches
get routed to Chinese web sites! There are work arounds for this, but I
shouldn't have to do that.

Thanks for any help.

Philip Muskovac wrote:
> This functionality was moved in Network Manager from 'Network settings'
> to System->Settings->'Network connections'. You can also right click the
> NetworkManager Icon in your notification area to get the connection
> details and settings.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
>
>

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote :

I'll convert this into a question since you still need help and it's not a bug.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Invalid → New
status: New → Invalid
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