Network gurus

[Michael]

Thanks. Got it taken care of now! Why do you think it would suddenly not
accept DHCP? I mean, my laptop still works and it is the same OS.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2 is good.  8.8.8.8. And 8.8.4.4
>
> Those are Google servers
>
> On Nov 7, 2017 2:58 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> # 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.
>>>>
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail
>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>> (END)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Michael <bmike1 at 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 at 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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