recovery mode dns fails

[Couch_Potato]

Greetings again my fellow minters.

My recently purchased e6220 barebones (no os, no hdd) from a local Goodwill Store is having some issues. Sometimes when I attempt to perform a shutdown it sits and hangs. But I am hampered in my troubleshooting efforts due to revocery mode name resolution not working. I cannot easily fix broken packages or install new software. I am able to boot into recovery mode, but when I attempt to enable networking I get error messages that /etc/resolv.conf was not found, even though I can list them using ls there is no content. I tried running updatedb and ldconftig. to try and verify that resolv.conf was not there.

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I tried:  touch /etc/resolv.conf 

then

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 echo "nameserver name of server and ip address"  > /etc/resolv.conf

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echo "domain Home" >> /etc/resolv.conf

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Apparently, systemd did not want to start up the resolver:

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systemctl start resolvconf.service 

would just hang.

I realize that it might be that recovery mode networking is only suppose to work over ethernet connection. But that is what I am trying to do. I get an ip address from my verizon router. I just cannot get dns resolving to function. Can anybody shed some light on this issue for me. I have be searching this site surprisingly noone that I can find gets these errors.

Regards,
Your Couch_Potato

[deepakdeshp]

Here is my resolve.conf

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cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1
search domain.name

During installation time all these files are generated correctly rather than trying to generate them later,
The man page is

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http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/resolvconf.8.html

You can see manpage of your system with

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man resolv.conf

.
Good luck