Comment 39 for bug 366967

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:26:17PM -0000, Steffen H. wrote:
> I had an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10 workstation.

> I recently received an update that required a 'restart' (aka reboot - new
> kernel). I put off the reboot while working away - for a week or so. So,
> as has happened each time I've had to 'restart' (aka reboot for a new
> kernel), I once again watched in disgust as my /etc/resolv.conf file got
> blown away.

The Ubuntu bug tracker is a place for users to report bugs and work with
developers to resolve them. You have followed up to an existing bug report
without subscribing to it, providing only a vague description of the problem
("something" overwrote /etc/resolv.conf) and giving no reason to think your
message is related to this closed bug report.

You should not expect the Ubuntu developers to take any action in response
to such a message.

> Is anyone EVER going to allow an Ubuntu system administrator to
> configure their networking set up via some /etc file contents. Is some
> GUI now mandatory?

This has worked flawlessly for the vast majority of Ubuntu users since
Ubuntu's inception.

> As others have noted, I now find that ifdown/ifup works - albeit only
> once I conform to the Ubuntu way and put a dns-nameservers directive
> into the eth0 stanza in /etc/network/interfaces.

This sounds like you did have resolvconf installed. Resolvconf has never
been part of a standard Ubuntu install prior to 12.04, was unmaintained in
the Ubuntu archive and was in a known-broken state (as this and other bug
reports attest). The obvious solution if you aren't happy with the output
of resolvconf, a package which exists for the *sole purpose* of updating
/etc/resolv.conf, is to uninstall the package.

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