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jdkdonk

Member

Registered: 2009-11-23

Posts: 23

Empty resolv.conf

I've got an issue where my network fails to resolve dns.  It's find when I boot, then some apparently random time later, dns no longer works.  When this occurs, it noticed that /etc/resolv.conf is empty.  All my normal dns servers reported during dhcp lease are still accessible and work via ip address.  If I add them back into resolv.conf dns works again.  I did notice, that the last modified time of the resolv.conf appears to coincide with dhcpcd renewal, but there are no errors reported in journalctrl by /usr/bin/dhcpcd.

I didn't see anything in the forums about this when I searched.  Anyone seen this before? Or have an idea how to trap whats erasing the file contents?

Thanks,
Jeremy

alphaniner

Member

From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Empty resolv.conf

Maybe the problem lies with the dhcp server and it's sending an empty list upon renewal.

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