[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#514411: Bug#514411: resolvconf breaks all network operations

[Richard Kettlewell]

Thomas Hood wrote:
> Through which network interface can those nameservers be reached?  How
> is that network interface configured?

eth0 and as below.

$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:3e:06:f3:14
           inet addr:172.17.207.12  Bcast:172.17.207.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe06:f314/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:43160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:23021 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:58499268 (55.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1989753 (1.8 MiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:4511 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:4511 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:315196 (307.8 KiB)  TX bytes:315196 (307.8 KiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 172.17.207.12
  gateway 172.17.207.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0

  # post-up  ethtool -K eth0 tx off

#
# The commented out line above will disable TCP checksumming which
# might resolve problems for some users.  It is disabled by default
#

ttfn/rjk