Re: NM re-writing /etc/resolv.conf

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 12:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> This morning, when I brought my hibernating Fedora-16 laptop to life,
> I found NM had re-written /etc/resolv.conf , leaving only comments.
> 
> The laptop was connected to the internet before hibernation,
> and had been working normally.
> 
> Why does NM do this?
> Is there any way of stopping it?

If NM fails to find connectivity, then any nameservers
in /etc/resolv.conf are no longer valid since they cannot be reached.
If you have static nameservers that you'd like to use, those should be
specified *per-connection*, since as David said, nameservers change
depending on where the information came from (VPN, DHCP, PPP, etc).

Can you describe your problem in more detail?

Dan