Did you turn on some sort of caching DNS in linuxconf?  That might cause it
to look to the localhost.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kendric Beachey [mailto:ak@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: A weird question on DNS and booting Mandrake
> 
> 
> Every time I boot my Mandrake 7.2 machine, it overwrites 
> /etc/resolv.conf so 
> that it contains only one entry, 127.0.0.1, which frankly 
> doesn't do me a lot 
> of good.  I have made myself a short script called fix.dns 
> that copies the 
> correct version of resolv.conf in its place, and I've taken 
> to running that 
> as root before doing anything net-related such as reading mail.
> 
> There's got to be a better way.  Who can tell me where to 
> look to stop the 
> automatic overwriting of /etc/resolv.conf?
> 
> This started one day after I'd been looking around in the 
> various screens of 
> linuxconf.  I thought I wasn't actually changing anything, 
> just looking 
> around, but maybe linuxconf thought differently.
> 
> -- 
> Kendric Beachey
> ak@kc.rr.com
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