[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#434336: network-manager: NM drops some information

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Monday 23 July 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > I'm using network-manager and network-manager-vpnc to connect to my VPN
> > network.
> >
> > I've been using vpnc and it has been working perfectly for months.
> >
> > network-manager-vpnc connected properly with a difference of only one
> > thing. It was dropping a list of new name servers which were sent by the
> > DHCP server when the VPN connection was being established.
> >
> > This caused my box to not be able to talk to the VPN network (because the
> > name servers were not updated).
>
> afaik this is a problem within the vpnc plugin, not NM itself.
> Does it help, if you edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and add
>
> supersede domain-name "mydomain";
> prepend domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; (or whatever your ip address is)
>

Hi Mike,

BTW, I noticed that this "information being dropped" problem occurs only when 
I'm using resolvconf. I just removed resolvconf and now things seem to be 
working fine.

Ritesh
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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