How to prepend preferred DNS address in F9

[PaulFXH]

I installed F9 on my MacBook yesterday and most things work fine.
However, browsing is slow as it always is for me unless I can get the network to ONLY use the openDNS addresses (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).
If my router address (192.168.1.254) shows up as a preferred DNS address, then browsing becomes intolerably slow.
In general, I can get what I need by editing the /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf or equivalent file
However, this facility doesn't seem to be available in F9.
But, I did find this old guide which I followed to the letter.
While it may have worked with older versions of Fedora, it doesn't do the job for me here as /etc/resolv.conf always ends up with this:

nameserver 192.168.1.254
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

I have, in another distro, made the /etc/resolv.file immutable which works fine (other than that it messes up the occasional system update) but I hope a more elegant solkution may be available.
Any ideas what I might try here?

[jon3k]

Where is the 192.168.1.254 nameserver coming from? dhcp? If so, just modify the dhcp server to give out the opendns IP's for nameservers.

[PaulFXH]

Thanks for the reply

Originally Posted by jon3k

Where is the 192.168.1.254 nameserver coming from? dhcp?

I'm really not sure it does as when I choose StaticIP rather than DHCP, I still get exactly the same DNS servers in the very same order (that is, 192.168.1.254 comes first).

What I find very puzzling is that setting up the file dhclient.conf with only the DNS IPs that I want to use, which has worked perfectly for me in quite a number of other distros, just doesn't work here in F9.
Maybe I'm going to have to go back to the cheap and dirty expedient of editing /etc/resolv.conf and making it immutable. Unless somebody knows a better way................?

[hyperspace]

Originally Posted by PaulFXH

Thanks for the reply


I'm really not sure it does as when I choose StaticIP rather than DHCP, I still get exactly the same DNS servers in the very same order (that is, 192.168.1.254 comes first).

What I find very puzzling is that setting up the file dhclient.conf with only the DNS IPs that I want to use, which has worked perfectly for me in quite a number of other distros, just doesn't work here in F9.
Maybe I'm going to have to go back to the cheap and dirty expedient of editing /etc/resolv.conf and making it immutable. Unless somebody knows a better way................?

Are you using NetworkManager?

[PaulFXH]

Originally Posted by hyperspace

Are you using NetworkManager?

Yes, I am.

[hyperspace]

If you don't need it for any particular reason, you may want to concern disabling the NetworkManager service and enabling the network service. See if that corrects the problem.

[PaulFXH]

Originally Posted by hyperspace

If you don't need it for any particular reason, you may want to concern disabling the NetworkManager service and enabling the network service. See if that corrects the problem.

Well, I did that but it didn't help.
Actually, it was worse as the open DNS IPs that I had included in /etc/dhclient.conf didn't show up in /etc/resolv.conf at all but only the totally useless 192.168.1.254

[hyperspace]

Originally Posted by PaulFXH

Well, I did that but it didn't help.
Actually, it was worse as the open DNS IPs that I had included in /etc/dhclient.conf didn't show up in /etc/resolv.conf at all but only the totally useless 192.168.1.254

Sorry about that. Hope you were able to get back to "normal".