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