On 2014-01-25, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Centos 6.5, I use NM to bring up the VPN to my office, and to disconnect > from it. > > every now and then I screw up and disconnect the LAN itself instead of > the VPN. > > once I do that, even after reconnecting to the LAN I'm hosed. > > /etc/resolv.conf hasn't been put back to the non-VPN version, so I manually > fix that. > > but even then I can't get any name resolution. > > I'm sure that rebooting IS NOT the right answer, but it's the only one > I've come up with that solves the problem. > > What should I be doing instead, once the system is in this state? > > thanks! > Try doing (as root) service NetworkManager restart to restore NM to its intial state. Not an ideal solution (assuming it works), but better than a full reboot. -- Liam