On Tue 24 Mar 2020 at 06:42:44 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2020 06:04:10 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 23 mar 20, 18:42:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Thats a problem I don't have Greg. I went to a locally defined hosts > > > file 30+ years ago for all my private resolutions, and it Just > > > Works. Queries that go out on the wire for resolution are relayed to > > > the dns services of my provider. Resolution times for external sites > > > are sub 100 millisecond as a general rule. Thats ALL handled by my > > > router running dd-wrt which I think is using dnsmasq. > > > > > > Yet every time I promote such a structure as a solution to someones > > > local network problems I am the idiot according to you for not using > > > dhcp globally. I don't enjoy being painted as an a-hole for using > > > something that Just Works. So I've quit unless you or someone like > > > you pulls my chain. > > > > Static IPs and /etc/hosts works just fine here with systemd-networkd / > > systemd-resolved and Network Manager. > > > > > For the "vast majority of system's", as I install them, the first > > > thing I have to do is uninstall that stuff as it has yet in the last > > > 5 years, to use anything in the routing table but the avahi supplied > > > 169.xx.cc.nn address which is not allowed off the premises by > > > dd-wrt. > > > > [citation needed] > > My own posting about it in just the past year, but that posting was only > done after the problem was solved. As its a bit hard to post from the > machine that has a bogus routing setup. With dhcpd5 (I think thats the > right name) in the system it does no good to put the correct route as a > gateway statement in your /e/n/interfaces tree.
Hm, you thought you'd probably fixed the problem IIRC while composing your post of Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:38:10 -0400, after a couple of days of back-and-forth here, and after being asked to move the discussion here from a different list. > So that and avahi generally get nuked. Most of us avoid installing packages, rather than nuking them. Oh, but I almost forgot, it wasn't a Debian system in any case. > IMNSHO both were written to screw up networking, > their only possible reason-de-tere. Shame on you, sir. Cheers, David.