Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > Yes, and I think that's outdated. You can configure your DHCP client software to _not_ use nameserver IPs sent by the DHCPd and instead use locally defined ones. If using ISC's dhclient, set supersede domain-name-servers ip-address [,

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:07:05 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > http://connectman.sourceforge.net/ CLI connection manager looks pretty cool, especially if I can team it up with UMENU. I might try it out as a substitute for using wpa_gui and wpa_password. SteveT Steve Litt July 2019 featured book:

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 22:14:45 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:34:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi Hendrik, > > > > It isn't just conman: It's all these silly "we do it all for you" > > networking helpers. I just do this: > > > > chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf > > > >

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Does conman, the connection manager, originate from Helpful Lennart? Nei. http://connectman.sourceforge.net/ > And doesn't the DNS IP number on a mobile device like a laptop normally > come from the DHCP protocol? Pretty nearly universally,

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:34:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:31:31 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop, though it worked > > perfectly well on the server it wifi-ed to. > > After some pinging and checking connections, I found

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:31:31 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop, though it worked > perfectly well on the server it wifi-ed to. > After some pinging and checking connections, I found this on my > laptop. > > The file /etc/resolv.conf: > > # Generated by

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > maybe it expects you to run a local caching dns resolver :D The best (IMO) term for what you're describing is 'recursive server', though there's a lot of variant word usage.

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-10 Thread Ozi Traveller via Dng
I'm using connman too! :( I just updated mine /etc/resolv to nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 and it was instantly changed to nameserver 209.222.18.222 nameserver 209.222.18.218 Ozi On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:31 AM Hendrik Boom wrote: > This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop,

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-10 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 7/10/19 6:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Now why would the connection manager (conman) suddenly be setting my > nameserver to localhost? maybe it expects you to run a local caching dns resolver :D it might actually provide a faster experience... using unbound/dnsmasq/others. wiki.archlinux.org

Re: [DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-10 Thread wirelessduck--- via Dng
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/connman/connman.8.en.html Look at the -r option. Maybe that lets you disable the built-in DNS proxy. Was that previously set somewhere? > On 11 Jul 2019, at 01:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop, though it worked

[DNG] dns vs connection manager

2019-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
This morning DNS wasn't working on my laptop, though it worked perfectly well on the server it wifi-ed to. After some pinging and checking connections, I found this on my laptop. The file /etc/resolv.conf: # Generated by Connection Manager nameserver ::1 nameserver 127.0.0.1 Now why would the