Comment 11 for bug 8634

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:11:48 +1000 (EST)
From: Tim Connors <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: dhcp3-client: dhclient-script only sets resolv.conf when both
 new_domain_name and new_domain_name_servers exist

I just installed dhcp-client, and set it up to work on the network here.
It overwrote my resolv.conf file, which I thought was an extremeyl rude
thing to do. I search the Debian bugs, and realised that maybe
dhcp3-client fixes this up. But no - your post points me to the fact that
make_resolv_conf still, unbelievably, overwrite the resolv.conf file,
without asking the user, and without making a backup.

Your proposed patch would worsen this situation, by outright removing the
file straight away!

I want my resolv.conf to have a predefined search path, no matter what
network I am on, and I want it to look at 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver. If
instalation of dhcp{,3}-client is going to overwrite my settings, the
least it can do is warn me at install time - I wasn't exactly expecting to
lose my settings!

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