Thread: resolv.conf does not save nameservers
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2011-01-16 , 11:17
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Originally Posted by xuggs View Post
So I saved 2 nameservers (DNS) from my router and then OpenVPN connects and i can use it just fine but the next time I connect again, it just won't. I opened resolv.conf and the nameservers were gone. Is this meant to be this way?
On the N900, /etc/resolv.conf should only contain 127.0.0.1 as the nameserver. It then uses dnsmasq to reference the appropriate DNS servers for each connection (see /var/run/resolv.conf.*). If you set the DNS servers via the UI then they should be persistent though.
 

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