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DNS and cloud init; where is the proper location to set the resolver

Posted February 15, 2020 130 views
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I’m running Centos 7. All the usual places to change the DNS resolver have a warning message that this file is created by cloudinit. So where do I actually set the resolver address? That is I need a file not created by cloudinit or any other automatic process.

The only reason I ask is in the last few days my reverse DNS check in Postfix has failed on some IP addresses that are fine, i.e. do have a reverse pointer. For example google gmail servers and comcast.

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KDSys February 16, 2020

Hi @gc948486cbc56b8,

If you wish to change your Resolv.conf you’ll need to edit your /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file. Open the file and search for the [main] section in this file. As soon as you find it, Add dns=none just after the [main] tag:

[main]
dns=none

Now that you are done with that part, update your /etc/resolv.conf to whatever you like and restart your NetworkManager. 

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

And that’s it, your resolv.conf should now be safe.

Regards,
KDSys

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  • gc948486cbc56b8 February 16, 2020

    I don’t have that file structure. I have
    /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
    with a number of different files.

    This is my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with obvious censoring.

    # Created by cloud-init on instance boot automatically, do not edit.
#
BOOTPROTO=none
DEFROUTE=yes
DEVICE=eth0
GATEWAY=zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
HWADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
IPADDR1=yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
MTU=1500
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETMASK1=255.255.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
DNS1=9.9.9.9
ZONE=public
~

    suggested fix
    except the Digitalocean comment says not to edit the file. The DNS1 does seem to propagate. The suggested fix is to remove the DNS1 line and then change resolve.conf

    sh-4.2# cat resolv.conf
; Created by cloud-init on instance boot automatically, do not edit.
;
search localdomain
nameserver 9.9.9.9

    I would like to switch to a non-filtered DNS like 1.1.1.1

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