Bringing down a network interface with ifdown can break DNS resolution
Issue
- When a network interface is brought down with ifdown on a system with DNS parameters set in other ifcfg files, DNS resolution stops working for the remaining interfaces
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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