Restoring /etc/resolv.conf after a modem/router burp

[David Thornton]

 From man dhcpcd

-R Prevents *dhcpcd* from replacing existing //etc/resolv.conf/ file.

Probably very rarly when your dhcp lease is reset there are new name 
servers.

figure out what the Stunpatico servers are and add them to a static 
resolv.conf

cool?

david

Alex Beamish wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This will probably be as easy-peasy question for some of you, but
>right now the answer is frustratingly beyond my reach.
>
>I use OpenVPN to stay in touch with my employer's LAN, through
>Sympatico's DSL service. I have nameserver statements at the top of my
>/etc/resolv.conf file to let me use the Company's name servers to get
>to the company servers that I need to, as well as a search statement
>for the company domain. Below that are the standard Sympatico name
>servers.
>
>Every once in a while either the modem or the router (Netgear RP614)
>goes burp and my /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten with Sympatico's
>two name servers. When that happens, I have to go back into
>/etc/resolv.conf and add in the definitions to get name service
>working with my employer's LAN again.
>
>Now, OpenVPN comes up right away, so I could use just the IP
>addresses, but name servers were invented for a reason -- so you
>wouldn't have to remember if that server was 192.168.0.123 bu instead
>was foo.bar.com.
>
>So really my question boils down to:
>
>What causes /etc/resolv.conf to be overwritten on a modem or router
>burp, and how can I hook that to automagically fix it?
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Alex
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