Re: Picks up weird numbers

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 6/29/07, Bluejack <bluejack bluejack com> wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > What distribution are you running?
>
> Debian / Etch
>
> > Network Manager accepts whatever
> > DNS servers your DHCP server gives out are you trying to use some that
> > are different than what it gives out?
>
> Well, I have my dhcp server configured to give out the opendns.com
> servers, and that's what my windows machines pick up. However,
> NetworkManager is picking up the address of the dhcp server itself and
> another nameserver, 216.162.192.12, which looks like something my isp
> would provide (except they suck & it rarely works). I can't figure out
> where this is coming from.
>
> So... when I turn *off* dhcp, as mentioned, using
> Desktop->Administration->Networking, NetworkManager *still* picks up
> these bogus numbers.
>
> Note: the domain it automatically picks up and writes into resolv.conf
> (over the settings specified in Desktop->Networking) is
> "domain.actdsltmp" which *does* look like something default that would
> come out of a dsl modem. However, I can't find any setting for that in
> the modem admin, and again, my windows machines are picking up the
> right numbers.
>
> I'm entirely prepared to believe the root cause is a garbage dsl
> modem, because I already hate the thing, but the interaction between
> NetworkManager and the Networking gui is somewhere between obscure and
> outright misleading...
>
> -B

I think the problem is that Debian has patched Network Manager to not
manage interfaces that have anything beyond auto set in
/etc/network/interfaces   The Networking application you mention is
the Gnome Panel and has no relation at all to Network Manager, in fact
if you configure anything there it will write it to
/etc/network/interfaces and NM will not manage the interface.

Can you post your /etc/network/interfaces?