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  • [gentoo-user] resolv.conf full of old info

    From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 19 00:30:02 2022
    I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete,
    useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks
    like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes up, but never removes
    it when the connection goes down.

    There are search entries and nameserver entries from networks I
    haven't been connected to for a long time.

    Even when there are no network interfaces up/configured,
    /etc/resolv.conf is full of entries -- and none of them are useful or
    valid.

    I've tried shutting down all of the network interfaces, deleteting all
    of the leases from /var/lib/dhcpcd and then removing resolv.conf. The
    next time any interface comes up, /etc/resolv.conf is again full of
    obsolete stuff along with the valid entries for the interface that has
    just come up.

    How do you get rid of old entries that show up in resolv.conf?

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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Grant Edwards on Wed Oct 19 02:10:01 2022
    On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

    I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete,
    useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks
    like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes up, but never removes
    it when the connection goes down.

    This appears to be caused by the "persistent" option in dhcpcd.conf,
    which is set by default. I commented it out, and now resolv.conf
    behaves rationally: it only contains info for network connections that
    are up.

    Why would dhcpcd have the persistent option enabled by default?

    --
    Grant

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  • From Michael@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 19 10:22:05 2022
    On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:00:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
    On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
    I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete,
    useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks
    like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes up, but never removes
    it when the connection goes down.

    This appears to be caused by the "persistent" option in dhcpcd.conf,
    which is set by default. I commented it out, and now resolv.conf
    behaves rationally: it only contains info for network connections that
    are up.

    Why would dhcpcd have the persistent option enabled by default?

    --
    Grant

    I think because this causes less breakage in those cases where netmount,
    remote syslog-ng, SSH clients, or root mounted NFS is in play? This is what the man page says about it:

    "... dhcpcd normally de-configures the interface and configuration when it exits. Sometimes, this isn't desirable if, for example, you have root mounted over NFS or SSH clients connect to this host and they need to be notified of the host shutting down."
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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Michael on Wed Oct 19 15:40:01 2022
    On 2022-10-19, Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
    On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:00:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
    On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

    Why would dhcpcd have the persistent option enabled by default?

    I think because this causes less breakage in those cases where netmount, remote syslog-ng, SSH clients, or root mounted NFS is in play? This is what the man page says about it:

    "... dhcpcd normally de-configures the interface and configuration when it exits. Sometimes, this isn't desirable if, for example, you have root mounted
    over NFS or SSH clients connect to this host and they need to be notified of the host shutting down."

    I guess that makes sense. What was confusing was that I read the man
    page which said it was normally disabled, and since I had never
    touched the config file, and wasn't passing the -p option I assumed it
    was disabled -- then I finally looked through the default config file,
    where it's "nomrally enabled".

    --
    Grant

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