Keith Keller wrote: >> I don't mind NM editing resolv.conf if it knows >> - or even thinks it knows - how to improve >> on the current settings, but what I don't understand >> is why it occasionally deletes the current settings >> without substituting anything else. >> I can't imagine any situation where this would help? >> Maybe the present settings are defective in some way; >> but no settings cannot possibly be better. > > No settings might be better. If I take my laptop from one site to > another, keeping my previous resolv.conf intact, and NM doesn't remove > it, then my laptop will try to query the previous site's DNS. They may > not like that; depending on how paranoid they are, they may even take > measures to block my traffic. Does this happen? I've never encountered it. In my case, the probability of my DNS settings in resolv.conf not working in a new site is close to zero, so you are replacing something that might possibly not work by something that is certain not to work. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland