Always better to have redundancy. Doesn’t your ISP (or whatever they call the people you pay money to for your internet) ‘give’ you a list of name servers?

Rusty Carruth | Customer Support | rusty.carruth@smarth.com | http://www.smarth.com

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2017 2:58 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Network gurus

is it better to have more than one? What other should I tell it?

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend@gmail.com> wrote:

You probably just need to use your desktop environment (gnome, etc) and go into network settings and change it there to a static DNS server. 

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

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/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base

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/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head

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# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

# 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.

# run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.

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/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail

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On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I looked into the file (as suggested) and it says not to edit manually.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com> wrote:

On my Linux boxes (Linux Mint), there is /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d dir which has 3 files:  base, head, tail.

Put ‘nameserver 8.8.8.8’ into base (or tail) and it should always get added to resolv.conf every reboot.  (You might look at all 3 files, my favourite trick for this is:

more /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/*|less

and see what’s in them before you start.)

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