Comment 4 for bug 31057

I just hit this. I have a machine with static IP and static DNS info in /etc/resolv.conf. I've been running fine on Dapper for months, but in the last update, my /etc/resolv.conf got wiped.

My attempted solution for this is:
edit /etc/resolv.conf to put the nameservers back, then
aptitude purge ppp pppconfig pppoeconf ubuntu-standard wvdial resolvconf
hoping that one of those packages is the one responsible and will keep it from happening again.

I don't even have a modem installed; I shouldn't need any of those package. But since they're a standard part of an Ubuntu install, I wonder what normal users who need static IP are going to do if they hit this? And I'm curious why it happened.