Re: its been done again. No network
On Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:51:39 EDT Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > gene heskett composed on 2022-03-23 20:40 (UTC-0400):
> > ...
> >
> > > So how do I get rid of it so I can have a net with MY default route
> > > and bring it up to date?
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdNetworkd works for my static IP
> > installations, which number several hundred, minus about 5.
>
> Gene is not running Debian and is again wasting everyone's time by
> asking about it here, despite being repeatedly asked not to. So for
> anyone finding this in the archives, Gene's problem is not with
> Debian, it is with Raspbian, and his now-remembered solution does
> not apply to Debian.
>
But Andy, it should, its the ONLY sensible solution to a problem most
distributions have when they encounter a home location without a dhcp
server. My home network name to address resolution method using a hosts
file, is at least a hundred milliseconds faster than anything involving a
dns server. And its concept is also simple, scan the hosts file first, if
that does NOT find it, forward it to the gateway, and my gateway/router
forwards it to whereever shentel.net has a dns server. And it Just Works.
Debian, FWIW is just as guilty as anybody else but uses a different path
to get there, if there is not a dhcp server available, they too use avahi
to plug in a totally useless, non-existant address in the 169.254 ipv4
block. And that does NOT get thru a router if one is in use.
It might work if connected directly to the modem, I don't know as I've
never been without a router once the net arrived at my street. With a
router, the only reason I run iptables is to specifically block the bots
that insist on mirroring my web pages, burning up 80 to 100 gigs a month
of my 10 meg ADSL connection, virtually all of my upload bandwidth.
Few of those jerks pay any attention to a robots.txt file.
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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