said sp2lob:

| Surely, it's not related to Trinity.

i kind of figured as much, but in that some (well, one that i know of) of 
the configuration modules (user administration) in the trinity system 
settings suite has not worked for ages, it could be that there was some 
little flakiness there.

| I observed such behavior on my Ubuntu 12.04LTS when switching,
| for instance,between wired and GSM Internet connetions.
| Network Manager is the troublemaker, most probably.

i'm running that version, until 14.04LTS plus the appropriate trinity for 
it come out, wired all the time on this machine.

| Don't bother yourself with warning saying "Do not edit".
| If you need, just insert manually into resolv.conf file
| your nameservers and restart networking:
| 	/etc/init.d/networking restart
| You should be O.K. then.

apparently, it is kosher to replace the linked resolv.conf with a real 
file, but the better method is to add a dns-nameservers line 
to /etc/network/interfaces. so i've done that and we'll see how it fares!

thanks very much.
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