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

[Michael Biebl]

retitle 434336 list of nameservers is not updated correctly
reassign 434336 resolvconf
thanks

Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb:
> 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.
> 

I'm going to reassign and retitle the bug report to resolvconf.

Cheers,
Michael
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