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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rusty Carruth | Customer Support |
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| <a href="http://www.smarth.com/">http://www.smarth.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 07, 2017 2:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Network gurus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is it better to have more than one? What other should I tell it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Brien Dieterle <<a href="mailto:briend@gmail.com" target="_blank">briend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I looked into the file (as suggested) and it says not to edit manually.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Carruth, Rusty <<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">On my Linux boxes (Linux Mint), there is /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d dir which has 3 files: base,
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reboot. (You might look at all 3 files, my favourite trick for this is:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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