DNS Problem Maintaining Domain on Fedora VM

[Tod Thomas]

On 06/23/2011 07:56 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:06:55 -0400
> Tod Thomas wrote:
>
>> I cannot get
>> Network Manager to keep the domain name so I'm constantly having to add
>> it at the end of my host names which is a little annoying.
> In theory you can make NM stop fooling with the resolv.conf
> file by putting PEERDNS="no" in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
> file. Then you can just manually edit resolv.conf to have
> the correct search path (after rebooting to make sure all the
> resolv.conf editing is really finished).
>
> The other "big hammer" approach which I have had to use on
> some machines is to edit /etc/resolv.conf manually, then
> do "chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf" - that makes the file
> "immutable" and even root can't write on it anymore.

I'm already using PEERDNS="no". I'm afraid if I try the immutable trick 
I'll cause DHCP problems when VPN'ing. Is that a reasonable concern? Any 
other options? I noticed a PEERDNS="no" bug reported under fc13 but it 
looks like it lapsed due to fc13's EOL.


- Tod