[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#878558: Fails to maintain static DNS servers

[Ryan Kavanagh]

Source: wicd
Version: Fails to maintain static DNS
Severity: normal

Under the appropriate stanza for my wireless network in
wireless-settings.conf, I have

    use_global_dns = True

I have global_dns_1,...,global_dns_3 set in manager-settings.conf.
This network is configured to use DHCP.

When I first connect to the wireless network, the appropriate static DNS
values get copied into /etc/resolv.conf. However, after having been
connected to the network for some time, the contents of /etc/resolv.conf
get replaced by

    nameserver 192.168.1.1

(the gateway's IP address) which is an immmediate practical problem,
because the that gateway's resolver is *very very slow*. It's also a
problem in general, because if I configure static DNS servers via WICD,
I expect them to be used for the duration of the connection.

I'm not sure where to start looking to debug this, so please let me know
what additional debugging information I can provide to help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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