Thanks for the comment. > ... /etc/resolv.conf ... ... > ...don't edit this file manually it is auto-generated ... I have been trying not to comment on any o

Thanks for the comment. > ... /etc/resolv.conf ... ... > ...don't edit this file manually it is auto-generated ... I have been trying not to comment on any of this discussion, but You just hit a nerve for me (in a good way!). resolv.conf: near and dear to my heart Don't edit manually...: if it is cattle (most servers and IoT) - ok, I move on. If it is a pet (any of my main laptops), whoa. Stop what I'm doing and track down the software that did this. Purge it or re-write the offending code to not mess with stuff. Track down what was relying on this behaviour and purge. Rinse, repeat. FWIW, I am running Slackware, OpenBSD, and sometimes FreeBSD on my pets (they are all installed it's just that I mostly live in the first two). Also, I find it hard to not have all the different man pages always available (no, I don't have a constant Internet connection - Security policies).