I am trying to setup a pi3 B+ as a router and cannot really understand how DNS resolution works in raspbian.
Before doing any router business, I am just trying to understand how dns resolution work on a pi.
/etc/resolv.conf contains
# Generated by resolvconf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
But when I try to use resolvectl I get
Failed to get global data: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
and more oddly
systemd-resolved is not running.
On Ubuntu I have the same .conf file, but resolvectl works and the service is active.
So how does this work on a normal Pi? using a fully updated Raspbian.
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Re: DNS Resolution on Raspbian
Have you got pihole installed? Are you running dnsmasq for any reason?
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Re: DNS Resolution on Raspbian
I do.
I had left dnsmasq on for wlan0 which I thought would not cause issues.
But interaction between dnsmasqd and resolved is a common topic of questions.
Thank you, need to do more homework.
I had left dnsmasq on for wlan0 which I thought would not cause issues.
But interaction between dnsmasqd and resolved is a common topic of questions.
Thank you, need to do more homework.
Re: DNS Resolution on Raspbian
I made some progress (and changed vpn provider for other reasons).
Everything works but I have no idea why.
Reading some tutorials
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN#DNS
it seems that one has to do a few steps to get DNS from the OpenVPN server.
I just run openvpn (the client) and everything works out of the box.
With the previous provider it did not happen.
And it is definitely not using the DNS server of my ISP (I can tell because it is able to resolve some names blocked by my ISP).
This is true for the pi itself and wifi clients via dhcp.
Feels a lot like magic but it works.
Regards
Everything works but I have no idea why.
Reading some tutorials
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN#DNS
it seems that one has to do a few steps to get DNS from the OpenVPN server.
I just run openvpn (the client) and everything works out of the box.
With the previous provider it did not happen.
And it is definitely not using the DNS server of my ISP (I can tell because it is able to resolve some names blocked by my ISP).
This is true for the pi itself and wifi clients via dhcp.
Feels a lot like magic but it works.
Regards