for some reason there is a directory /etc/resolvconf/ in this server that my new server does not have. I don't know if it's significant, but here's the structure:
root@server1:~# ls -l -R /etc/resolvconf/
/etc/resolvconf/:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-08 12:42 update-libc.d
/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d:
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249 2008-03-21 21:40 avahi-daemon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 162 2007-11-15 19:50 fetchmail
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