Comments on: Static IP address on Ubuntu 8.10

By: How I got networking and DNS to work in Ubuntu Intrepid

How I got networking and DNS to work in Ubuntu Intrepid — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:42:51 +0000

[...] followed a howto for removing network manager and setting up static ips manually. It helped a lot, but there are a couple of notes I feel are important for making the Bind9 and [...]

By: hawks

hawks — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:13:18 +0000

I would just like to say thanks, after looking around the web and even ubuntu own site for help. I can across this, WORK 1st time for me

By: dedi

dedi — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:42:47 +0000

after you remove ( sudo apt-get remove –purge network-manager )

#just edit file /etc/rc.local
#give command
ifconfig eth0 inet [your-ip] netmask [your-netmask]
route add default gw [your-gateway]

#and edit /etc/resolv.conf for DNS SERVER. after your PC reboot your system will reading this configuration

By: Rico

Rico — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:12:34 +0000

And how about two configurations — one with static manual IP, and the other DHCP?

I was switching from Fedora, but after struggling with this for a day now I think not. Strange, I had been hearing about how everything just worked with Ubuntu….

By: pew pew pew

pew pew pew — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:18:13 +0000

To manoj.
Use the Ubuntu installation CD. Synaptic Package Manager can install packages from the CD.

By: artist

artist — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:47:25 +0000

I’m sorry I found I had the problem of resolv.conf too what as success said after I wrote that message. But I could not return here until I got an e-mail with success’s reply ( there is the URL here in it).

Firstly I wrote a file with DNS message and wrote a script for auto copy the DNS message from the file to resolv.conf after every reboot. But I thought it’s stupid and then try again.

Actually, the only thing have to do is to remove the line “auto eth0″ from /etc/network/interfaces, then NetworkManager wil not rewrite resolv.conf again.

Success, Thank you.

By: artist

artist — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:35:33 +0000

To manoj: I think you can use “Synaptic Package Manager” in the menu of “System -> Administration” to install it if your system is UBUNTU Linux.

By: artist

artist — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:27:07 +0000

I’m sorry as what success said I had problems with resolv.conf, too. But I could not return here to point the problem until I got the e-mail with success’s reply (There is the URL here in the e-mail).

I have ever wrote a file with DNS message and add a script auto to copy the message to the resolv.cionf after every reboot. But I thought it’s not a good way.

Then I found that what I had to do is only to remove the line “auto eth0″ in /etc/network/interfaces. Then NetworkManager will not rewrite resolv.conf again. Simple!

Thank success.

By: success

success — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:53:44 +0000

Oh, should have added that the DNS addresses in the directions above point to the opendns.com servers. You are free to use them or replace with your own dns address. See opendns.com for more info/restrictions.

By: success

success — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:51:04 +0000

For those who followed artist’s instructions and still having problems with resolv.conf being overwritten, the following fixed it for me and I no longer need to modify resolv.conf and have not removed network manager (but made artist’s changes). Directions copied from here: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-979-having-a-static-ip-address-under-ubuntu-8-10

DNS

If you want to make use of specific DNS, modify the following file /etc/resolv.conf
Note that if you are using DHCP on one of your interfaces, the contents of this file will be overwritten by the DHCP client.

To force the DHCP client to use a specific DNS, edit the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

Add the following line:
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220;

DNS returned by DHCP are will be added after the DNS you specified.