[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#339418: Make this cut-off at 127 option configurable and document it

[Casper Gielen]

I've just been bitten by this bug, and it was highly annoying.
Bind, running on 127.0.0.1 broke, and as there were no fallback servers 
in /etc/resolv.conf anymore, the machine effectively lost it's internet 
connection. Without a working internet connection fixing the bind problem 
became rather difficult.

Although the problem was caused by a misconfigured named, it turned into a 
disaster because resolvconf refused to add the extra nameservers to 
resolv.conf . 
I understand your desire to keep resolv.conf short, but you should not 
automatically force this decision over my manual configuration.

Please make this feature configurable, or at least notify the user of what is 
going on. At least document it clearly, right now it is not documented 
anywhere, not even in the code. Right now the only explanation is in these 
bug reports, which is far from ideal.
-- 
	Casper Gielen
casper at gielen.name, CAPSLOCK2000 at zvdk.nl
--
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It's expensive to own, expensive to fix, and makes you curse like an italian.
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