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Ubuntu source list generator official and 3rd parties servers

The other day I was talking about the default sources.list file after a clean install on Ubuntu 9.10.
You can also generate an sources.list file from :

http://repogen.simplylinux.ch

You can choose from default main, restricted, universe and multiverse, and also from ubuntu security updates servers: security, updates, proposed and backports, and some 3rd parties repositories.

3rd party repositories: Abiword, Ailurus, AWN (Avant Window Navigator), Banshee, BaShare, Blueman, Breathe Icon Set, Cairo Dock, Chromium Project, Conky, Deluge BitTorrent, Dropbox, Emesene, Esmska, Exaile, FreeNX, GetDeb, GNOME-Colors PPA, Gnome-Do, Google Linux Software Repositories, Google Linux Software Repositories (testing), HandBrake, Kadu, KDE 3.5, KMess, Kubuntu Backports, Kubuntu Beta, Kubuntu Experimental, Kubuntu Updates, LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio, MediaInfo, Medibuntu, Mendeley Desktop, Miro HD Video Player, Mozilla Daily Build Team, OpenShot, Opera, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, origami, Pidgin, Playdeb, PlayOnLinux, PPA for Kiwi Linux Members, qutIM (SVN), Skype, SMPlayer, Terminator, Themes for GNOME and Ubuntu, Tor: anonymity online, Ubuntu Tweak, VirtualBox, VLC Media Player, Vuze, Wicd, Wine, X Updates and XBMC Media Center.

Resources: Ubuntugeek

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Tweaking dhcp client configuration to change the default DNS servers to Open DNS

The DNS servers of my ISP is always behaving erratically. The DNS look up times are abysmally large and some times I get an address not found error while browsing. On ubuntu/debian systems the DNS servers are specified in /etc/resolv.conf. I tried to edit /etc/resolv.conf and put open dns servers as default DNS servers. But, my ISP supplies their DNS server address along with IP address for the system via DHCP. Every time my system renews its DHCP lease. my /etc/resolv.conf is also rewritten with their DNS address.

My /etc/resolv.conf ( supplied by ISP) looks like this.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain asianetindia.com
search asianetindia.com
nameserver 202.88.238.3
nameserver 202.88.238.5
nameserver 202.88.231.2

There is a trick I used to make Open DNS servers as my default DNS server.

Edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and look for the line.
#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
Add the following line immediately below the above line.

prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222;
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.220.220;

You can also put any other DNS servers.

Now renew the lease with

$ sudo dhclient eth0

The new /etc/resolve.conf looks like this.
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain asianetindia.com
search asianetindia.com
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 202.88.238.3
nameserver 202.88.238.5
nameserver 202.88.231.2

DNS look up is made from open dns.

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