Configure Static DNS Servers

Okay, you will read on several ways to do this but let me share what I learned through this journey.

One way you will see to configure this would be to edit /etc/resolv.conf by simply adding nameserver 8.8.4.4

Another way will be to add it to the /etc/network/interfaces by adding a line dns-nameserver 8.8.4.4

A third way that I learned is using network-manager.  I learned this by seeing in the /etc/resolv.conf a comment that stated that this file is being managed by, network-manager.  Which means any settings that you enter in /etc/resolv.conf will be overridden.. same goes for your interfaces file.

So your choices are either manually editing the files (which is what most people seem to prefer) or utilize network-manager but you can not do both.

If you choose manually editing then make sure you edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and change the line that says managed=true to managed=false then restart NetworkManager by typing /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

If you choose to use network manager then make sure the NetworkManager.conf file I just talked about says managed=true (if you had to alter the file then restart network-manager). Then launch network manager by typing nm-connection-editor

Hope this helps someone, I know it would of helped me.