Feisty forgets my Search Domains
| tags: ubuntu
When I type ssh gb-cs
I mean ssh gb-cs.cs.unc.edu
but I couldn't get that to work consistently at home. I'd add it to the Search Domains section of the DNS tab in the Network Settings dialog but next time I hibernated or rebooted, it would be gone. This tip suggested adding a package and then making a simple change:
Using Synaptics Package Manager I got resolvconf
. Then, sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
and I added dns-search cs.unc.edu
after the iface
line for the wireless interface.
This did not work for me. So I investigated the first proposed solution at the above page, but the file head
he refers to has a comment in it that says don't edit this file by hand so I decided that was a bad idea. The file tail in that same folder was empty and didn't say that, so I edited it and added search cs.unc.edu
. That seems to survive a reboot.