ifup overwrites resolv.conf incorrectly?
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Debian 12.4 with networking managed by systemd
networking.service
, dual stack IPv4 and IPv6.
I am aware of the many questions asking how to _stop_ the system from updating resolv.conf
, and this is not a duplicate.
TL;DR
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At bootup, ifup
appears to be overwriting resolv.conf
(which I want) but doing it "incorrectly" (I think). The result is that resolv.conf
ends up looking like this (prefix obfuscated):
nameserver 26xx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:201:2eff:fe70:3bfe
What is missing here is the nameserver
entry for IPv4, and the search
entry for my LAN domain.
Details
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To troubleshoot, I did the following:
* Deleted all current leases in /var/lib/dhcp
* Started packet capture on the firewall for DHCP and DHCP6 ports
* Rebooted the Debian system
* Examined the resulting capture file with Wireshark
The findings are:
* The IPv4 DHCP transaction requests, and the server returns, all the necessary information, including the hostname, domain name and DNS server IP.
* The IPv6 DHCP transaction requests the same data, but the response includes only the DNS server address; hostname and domain name are not present in the DHCP6 response.
What I suspect is happening is that ifup
is correctly setting up resolv.conf
with the IPv4 data, then completely overwriting it with the IPv6 response instead of combining them.
***THE QUESTION***: What is supposed to happen with DHCP options and resolv.conf
in a dual-stack system? Another way of asking that is "Who's at fault here, ifup
or pfSense?"
Note
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Packages network-manager
and resolvconf
are not installed, and systemd-networkd
is disabled. The network is being managed by systemd's networking.service
unit. I didn't intentionally set things up this way, it's what I got by default at installation.
Asked by Ex Umbris
(274 rep)
Feb 10, 2024, 08:37 PM
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