[OpenIndiana-discuss] /etc/resolv.conf is always empty after OS updates

Rich rercola at acm.jhu.edu
Mon Jul 16 20:11:37 UTC 2012


If you don't specify DNS servers in your NWAM config, then yes,
resolv.conf will blow away whenever nwam next reloads, I believe.

I presume you have reason to believe you are?

- Rich

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
> After I updated to OI151_a5 (from .._a4), as always, /etc/resolv.conf turned
> up empty.
>
> I get the feeling this might have something to do with me using NWAM (I
> think...).
>
> Could this be so? What am I missing in nwam, or what should I do otherwise??
>
> The installation is a straight default installation with very little extra
> configuration applied.
> The machine has two interfaces, configured with static addresses in the same
> network, both on the same LAN.
>
> I have another system, which has been much more hacked at, which does not
> use nwam, and which does not have this problem with resolv.conf being
> erased.
>
>
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