selected snippets from https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Defining_the_.28DNS.29_Nameservers

You can make /etc/resolv.conf immutable, so it cannot be changed by any package:

openresolv lets you tell it to do nothing whenever some daemon tries to modify resolv.conf, by putting resolvconf=NO in the /etc/resolvconf.conf file. (Note: this is not the /etc/resolv.conf file!)

The setting you want is: supersede domain-name-servers 12.34.56.78, 12.34.56.79

And my personal favorite:

echo ‘make_resolv_conf() { :; }’ > /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/leave_my_resolv_conf_alone; chmod 755 /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/leave_my_resolv_conf_alone

How the fuck did we get here? Aren’t these docs an admission that it’s a clusterfuck?

That page says don’t forget the “s” on dns-nameservers when using /etc/networking/interfaces, but https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/resolvconf/resolvconf.8.en.html omits it!

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    IMO this is largely Debian-specific: this distro seems to hold backward comaptibility in very high regard, so any problem is bound to have a multitude of solutions. In addition, the Debian Wiki is not as well maintained as you-know-whose.

    I see nothing untoward here.

    Except maybe that last sentence, what “s” are you talking about (fwiw, the man page that comes with an installed package should™ be the ultimate authority)?