GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 791849
man page for NetworkManager.conf: insufficient detail about global-dns section
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:30:07 UTC
The man page about NetworkManager.conf mentions "GLOBAL-DNS SECTION" and "GLOBAL-DNS-DOMAIN SECTIONS" but there is not a lot of detail and no examples. Searching online I found examples like this: [global-dns] enable=yes searches=example.org [global-dns-domain-*] servers=8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4 [global-dns-domain-example.org] servers=10.0.100.1,10.0.200.1 The "enable=yes" doesn't appear to be necessary, it works without that line for me. It is also not clear what I should do if I only want to have "searches" set globally but I want the DNS servers set automatically from DHCP or other sources. For example, I tried just setting this: [global-dns] searches=example.org and not adding any global-dns-domain- sections and the searches parameter was ignored.
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