How To Auto Add To /etc/resolv.conf?
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On Ubuntu 10.04 Server, you can edit a file and it will automatically add a nameserver to the /etc/resolv.conf
on boot. Unfortunately, Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop does not have this feature that I'm aware of, although perhaps I could be wrong.
See, as a web developer, I replace my localhost domain with "me.com" (since I never use me.com) in my /etc/hosts
file. So, I can visit my own web server this way. But since my /etc/resolv.conf
doesn't have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in it, every lookup has to go out to my slow ISP DNS lookup and then back. So, I edit the file manually, but every time I reboot, the connection gets lost, and every time my ISP has troubles and my system renegotiates afterwards, I have to type this entry in again.
Oh, and I prefer that the nameserver 127.0.0.1 be first, not last.
Note without this entry, every connection to me.com is slow. With this entry, my connection to me.com is super fast.
Is there a way to automatically do this on boot?
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