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Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS managers)

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On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 07:21:04 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:38:29AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > My usual strategy is to let the Debian installer set the dns server to
> > IP address of the router, and configure the router to query 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1.
> > It's not ideal if you have a router that doesn't "belong" to you,
> > ie that you can't configure yourself.
> > 
> > Resolvconf squirrels that original address away in
> > /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original so that it can revert to it
> > after you have left other networks/VPNs etc. So I guess that, at
> > worst, you can just write in whatever you want into that file.
> > Check it is still there after the next boot, and also check
> > /etc/resolv.conf (which is a symlink) to make sure that it used it ok.
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf *can* be a symlink, or not.  Depends on what you've
> installed.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf

You snipped the last line that I quoted, which said
"I also installed the package resolvconf because I need to
use it with openvpn." Resolvconf is the subject of my paragraph.

> This page doesn't talk about iwd... partly because I'd never heard of it
> at the time I wrote most of the content on that page.  I've certainly
> never used it, and I don't know how it works, how resolvconf interacts
> with it, etc.

Nor I, but I certainly intend to try it out, and have read through
that Arch wiki page. It (iwd) is in buster, but then, so is wicd,
and I've been using wicd/wpa_supplicant for some years with no need
to change. I'm somewhat surprised that there's been no reply from
an iwd user.

> It [wiki resolv.conf] also doesn't talk about systemd-networkd, or network-manager.  If
> some people out there know how those things work (in *detail*) and
> are able to contribute to the wiki page, that would be great.

I haven't used either of those, nor ConnMan, but at the moment,
I was treating resolvconf as a side dish, the main course being
to get to ping something using iwd.

Cheers,
David.

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iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-29 15:50 +0200
  Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 07:40 +0200
    Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-30 13:30 +0200
      Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-30 15:50 +0200
      Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 20:30 +0200
        Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-03 14:50 +0200
    Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-30 15:20 +0200
      Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 20:40 +0200
        Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-30 20:50 +0200
          Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 22:10 +0200
  Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS managers) Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-09-30 14:20 +0200
    Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-30 14:30 +0200
      Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-30 15:50 +0200
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          Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-30 16:10 +0200
            Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-30 19:40 +0200
    Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS  managers) Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-09-30 15:50 +0200
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