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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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".