NetworkManager update breaks DNS config

Jatin K ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 04:51:53 UTC 2013


On Friday 22 February 2013 08:48 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I just updated F18 using yum. The updates 
> included NetworkManager-0.9.7.997-2.fc18.x86_64. This broke DNS client 
> services on my machine, i.e. I couldn' t browse, email, or do lookups 
> on my main machine, even though other local machines all continue to 
> work. After some head-scratching the problem appears to be that 
> /etc/resolv.conf has been changed to have 127.0.0.1 as the (only) 
> nameserver. Since I' m not running bind or anything similar, this 
> means that DNS is effectively banjaxed.
>
> My resolv.conf is very simple (one entry, pointing to my router, which 
> is configured to point upstream correctly).
>
> Manually editing resolv.conf fixed the issue temporarily, but I 
> imaginethat NM will shortly intervene to undo the change.
>
> Just thought I'd alert people to this before they too are bitten. I'm 
> posting this from a VM which luckily has its own resolver.
>
> poc
>
>
I'm not sure, but you have installed dnsmasq, just disable dnsmasq or 
uninstall it


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