Re: resolv.conf (was Re: electrons/the Internet [racism redacted])

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 4:12 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 12:36:54PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > I believe Debian rewrites /etc/resolv.conf on every boot.
>
> This is not correct.  It's *partly* correct if you ignore a lot of
> complicating factors.
> [...]
>
> All of this is documented on <https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf>
> but it's a virtual certainty that nobody in this thread will read that
> wiki page and select a strategy and implement it and be happy.  Instead,
> we will have another hundred-message argument, in which half the
> participants will have no idea what the issue is (but will chime in loudly
> anyway), and the second half will simply attack whatever strategies the
> third half have selected.

Lol... so true. The internet never misses an opportunity to argue!

> resolv.conf (was Re: electrons/the Internet [racism redacted])

And I think I hear someone approaching with the Mjölnir hammer.
Someone might be plonked over the head.

Jeff