[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#760784: Bug#760784: Global settings

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.09.2014 21:56, schrieb martin f krafft:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.10.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> There seems to be no way with NM to
> 
>   1. override the list of DNS servers (I always want to use OpenNIC)
>   2. add a search domain to all connections (e.g. madduck.net for
>      me), not having to configure this for every connection
>   3. be able to specify defaults, e.g. requiring ipv6 addressing for
>      a connection to complete.
> 
> Etc.
> 
> It's surprising that none of this has been added to NM. Am
> I overlooking something? Are there other tools?

NM can talk to tools like resolvconf or dnsmasq and let them manage
/etc/resolv.conf. NM then only pushes the DNS information to them and
doesn't touch /etc/resolv.conf itself.

With resolvconf or dnsmasq you should be able to configure what you want.



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