New subject: Mailman Was Networking issue

3 Jun 2020

Hello,

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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:30:07PM +0100, Steve Harriss wrote:
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  On 03/06/2020 17:38, Andy Smith wrote:
 Hi Steve,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:30:55PM +0100, Steve Harriss wrote:
 Any ideas as to the best approach to fix this
properly please and
any idea what I could have done to wreak such havoc? I'm finding it hard to
identify what is your actual concrete problem
at present. Would I be right in saying that it's:

1) resolvconf doesn't put the nameserver IPs that you listed in
    /etc/network/interfaces into the /etc/resolv.conf file, so you
    have to put them in some other file that resolvconf reads  Precisely
 and

2) Your VM boots with no default route set?  Strangely, yes

resolvconf seems not useful on a server so the first thing I would
do is remove it and put the nameserver IPs statically in
/etc/resolv.conf.  
 That's the sort of advice I was after. I'll remove resolvconf and see how
 that goes.

 I was more concerned with how the installation, configuration and removal of
 one program could cause such alterations to a working server setup and was
 looking for any ideas and to avoid it again. 
Well installing resolvconf messes about with your /etc/resolv.conf
and any syntax error in /etc/network/interfaces can prevent
interfaces and routes being brought up correctly. But they're just
guesses and I could easily be wrong.

Cheers,
Andy

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