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

2021-10-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 30 sep 21, 13:24:46, David Wright wrote: > > 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

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

2021-09-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Stella Ashburne writes: > Yes, I was referring to using the old script update-resolv-conf with OpenVPN. > >> I never got that to do the right thing with any >> reliability. >> > Please explain what you meant by your statement. > > I've been using update-resolv-conf with OpenVPN without problems f

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

2021-09-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 14:46:50 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 01:30:20PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 192.168.1.1 looks like the d-i ran a DHCP client to get an address > > for your PC, and that the DHCP server that responded was probably > > your router, address 192.168.

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

2021-09-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 01:30:20PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 192.168.1.1 looks like the d-i ran a DHCP client to get an address > for your PC, and that the DHCP server that responded was probably > your router, address 192.168.1.1, and so the d-i figured that your > router would be able to resol

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

2021-09-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 15:17:03 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:38 PM > > From: "David Wright" > > > > 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.

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

2021-09-30 Thread David Wright
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

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

2021-09-30 Thread Reco
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:06:09PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Based on the above description, do you think that update-resolv-conf in > Bullseye will leak the IP addresses of my ISP's DNS resolvers? It's impossible to tell. DNS is a simple L7 protocol, so DNS queries can be easily routed to

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

2021-09-30 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi Reco Thanks for sharing your experience with me. > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 9:52 PM > From: "Reco" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS > managers) > > > The limit

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

2021-09-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Of course, if you intend to use openvpn-provided DNS list only, things > > will be more complicated. > > > What did you mean by "openvpn-provided DNS list only"? I didn't know that > OpenVPN provides a list of DNS re

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

2021-09-30 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi Reco I'm happy to hear from you again. > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:20 PM > From: "Reco" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS > managers) > > > Works for me since

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

2021-09-30 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi Anssi Thanks for sharing your experience with me. > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:15 PM > From: "Anssi Saari" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS > managers) > > If you mean

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

2021-09-30 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi Greg > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 7:21 PM > From: "Greg Wooledge" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS > managers) > > > This page doesn't talk about iwd... partly

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

2021-09-30 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi David Happy to hear from you again. > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:38 PM > From: "David Wright" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS > managers) > > > My usual strategy

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

2021-09-30 Thread Reco
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:15:09PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Stella Ashburne writes: > > > I also installed the package resolvconf because I need to use it with > > openvpn. > > If you mean you want to use the old script update-resolv-conf with > openvpn, I never got that to do the right thin

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

2021-09-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Stella Ashburne writes: > I also installed the package resolvconf because I need to use it with openvpn. If you mean you want to use the old script update-resolv-conf with openvpn, I never got that to do the right thing with any reliability. With systemd-resolved you can use update-systemd-resol

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

2021-09-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
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

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

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 15:39:38 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > I refer to the sub-section "Select DNS manager" > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd), in which the statement reads as > follows: > > At the moment, iwd supports two DNS managers - systemd-resolved and resolvconf > > Question:

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

2021-09-29 Thread Stella Ashburne
I refer to the sub-section "Select DNS manager" (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd), in which the statement reads as follows: At the moment, iwd supports two DNS managers - systemd-resolved and resolvconf Question: Which of the above two manages my DNS queries in a default Debian with lxqt-c