Hello, On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:46:53AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > 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.
I don't know what that means. The fact is that the Debian installer does not set things up in the way you experience with Raspbian, so you are repeatedly wasting everyone's time and polluting the archives by asking questions about it here. Most of the time that you do this you don't even make clear that you're talking about something that isn't Debian, that is configured differently to Debian and therefore behaves differently to Debian. It's good that you eventually "solve" this by remembering the last time that someone explained to you that Raspbian is configured differently, but by that time you have just inserted more irrelevant information into these archives and had a bunch of bystanders who don't realise the situation chasing around for solutions for you. > 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. If there is some problem with Debian I'm sure we could discuss it and document solutions to it, which is what this list is for. So let's do that - when you have a concrete real-world problem that you can poke at with the list's assistance, not some problem with something that isn't Debian. Especially when we've done this exact thing a few times already. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
