Permanently changing nameserver

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Mon Aug 2 13:46:09 EDT 2021


Then you may want to do

[main]

dns=none

in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

--Bruce

On 8/2/21 1:43 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
> Think it is being overridden in /etc/network/interfaces as well.  
> Tried enabling prepend domain-name-servers in dhclient.conf, but that 
> didn't work.
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:37 PM Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com 
> <mailto:jbd at codemeta.com>> wrote:
>
>     This is being set by dhclient when it gets the DHCP info.
>
>     I believe you can "fix" this by removing the 'domain-name-servers'
>     from the 'request' stanza in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf. You probably
>     want to do this ONLY on the machines that you don't want to get
>     the DNS servers from DHCP.
>
>     --Bruce
>
>     On 8/2/21 11:45 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>>     Due to some ISP snafus, and network reconfiguration, some of my
>>     RPI's are pointing to the wrong nameserver.  I use a pihole for
>>     DNS.  Anyways, I have a single RPI2 as a print server and it is
>>     stubbornly pointing to the wrong IP address.  The RPI2 is running
>>     on Raspberry Pi Debian Stretch.  I only use this node as the cups
>>     printer.
>>
>>     If I do cat /etc/resolve.conf I get, # generated by resolvconf 
>>     nameserver  192.168.1.xxx
>>     I want to have it permanently point to 192.168.1.1, ie the
>>     gateway so that I let the router redirect DNS traffic to pihole. 
>>     Looking at resolvconf info, it says NOT to use it directly.  So
>>     how does one do this?
>>
>>
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