I have been pulling my hair out over this, but seem to have a work-around after a lot of searching, but I'd like to know if there's a better way. Here's the info:
I'm building a server with F10 that (obviously) needs a static IP address. It seems the best way to handle what's needed is to go ahead and let NetworkManager still control the IP address.
BUT... I need to have that IP address activated at system startup, so it must be configured via system-config-network as System eth0 (and eth1 in this case) and then be controlled by NM.
Unfortunately, this machine - like most systems today - also needs DNS. I'm running named as it's meant to be an internal local DNS server for a bunch of other stuff too, but NM has a VERY nasty habit of overwriting /etc/resolv.conf with something that's basically BLANK. So every reboot, you have problems resolving DNS.
The only solution I have found so far is to: 1) properly re-create /etc/resolv.conf to what it should be 2) set the immutable flag on it (chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf)
This prevents NM from overwriting it.
OK - Fine. This isn't pretty (no work-around is), but it gets me what I need for now.
Since this is a known bug, do we know when there will be a fix for it, preferably in F10? Is there a better way of handling this problem until then?
Cheers,
Chris
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