[ale] incorrect /etc/resolv.conf after switching provider

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:18 PM, JK<jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Minor correction: I'm Joe Knapka, not Jim Kinney.  Don't let the fact
> that you've never seen both of us in the same room bother you at all.
> Jim and I did meet once, and there were no strange effects a la
> matter/antimatter, so I'm reasonably confident that we are distinct
> individuals. (Remember Jim, I bought that 15MB monster of a SCSI
> disk from you back in like 1993 or so? Picked it up in the parking
> lot of some building on the Emory campus, I think.)

I DO remember!! That drive allowed a salvage of old data tapes from a
Silicon Graphics Crimson.

The time dialation and temporal anomolies were no greater than normal
>
> -- JK
>
>
> Omar Chanouha wrote:
>> Wireshark confirmed that it is the router sending the incorrect DNS info.
>>
>> Jim, the response was still appreciated and interpreted properly, no worries.
>>
>> Now I just have to figure out why the router isn't updating it's DNS
>> cache properly and fix it... or just reset it.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> -O
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, JK<jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>>> JK wrote:
>>>> JK wrote:
>>>>> Omar Chanouha wrote:
>>>>>> Can anyone tell me where dhcpcd is getting this information? Is it the
>>>>>> router(linksys)? Is it in a cache somewhere?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we'd need to know more about your network setup to answer
>>>>> this question with any confidence.  Idle speculation follows, starting
>>>>> with the observation that the resolv.conf text implies you're
>>>>> running DHCP on a wireless interface, which in turn implies you
>>>>> are using a wifi router between your Linux box and your ISP's
>>>>> uplink.
>>>>
>>>> And, durrr, you also said that :-p
>>>
>>> And finally, because I realized after hitting "Send" that the comment above
>>> could be misinterpreted, and because sending self-followups is my favorite
>>> thing EVER, I feel I should point out that those words were meant to be entirely
>>> self-deprecating.  The gist is: "Gee, I'm such a dummy for not noticing
>>> (or else immediately forgetting) Omar's clear statement that he is, in
>>> fact, using a Linksys router, before sending my overly-verbose reply
>>> predicated upon some uncertainty as to whether or not that might be the
>>> case."  Or more concisely, "durrr".
>>>
>>> Even if I notice some obscure opportunity for THIS post to be misinterpreted,
>>> I promise not to send another post correcting it. Really.
>>>
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