My poor much abused laptop tends to get introduced to a lot of networks, most of which happily use DHCP, but a few which need special setup such as static ip addresses etc. In general, Network Manager handles this fairly well, however I've yet to find a way within Network Manager to set a default set of search domains for all connections.
The most reliable method I've found to implement this is the resolvconf package. Install this by running "sudo apt-get install resolvconf" and then edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base to add the following line:
An added advantage to this method is that resolvconf is smart enough to look at any search domains set via DHCP or that you might have added to the connection in Network Manager and append them to the search line.
The most reliable method I've found to implement this is the resolvconf package. Install this by running "sudo apt-get install resolvconf" and then edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base to add the following line:
search domain1.com domain2.comTell Network Manager to restart whatever connection your on, and /etc/resolv.conf should have the above line in it.
An added advantage to this method is that resolvconf is smart enough to look at any search domains set via DHCP or that you might have added to the connection in Network Manager and append them to the search line.
