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# DNS issues
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This portion of the repo contains the information on the aggravating
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issues reguarding my installs tendency to have DNS troubles and
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connectivity issues.
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## Issues
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1. DNS
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- Has issues with resolving domain names (ex: google.com)
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2. Connectivity
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- Has trouble with even connecting to outside servers
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### Network Managers Installed
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- NetworkManager
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- wpa_supplicant
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### DNS services installed
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- dhcpcd
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- systemd-resolved
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## Information Gathered
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When using systemctl and systemctl status to check the behaviors of dhcpcd and systemd-resolved I found that one of the possible problems is that my device is changing M.A.C and IP addresses about every 4-5 minutes.
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I would ping (8.8.8.8) one of googles public dns servers to test if my connection was working,
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however when I did the following message was returned " ping: connect: Network is Unreachable".
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This by itself could mean a that either my network is offline or my computer just isn't connected to my wifi.
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The other issue with my os not being able to resolve the host name. This happened everytime I tried
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to ping a server using the domain name. When I tried originally the message "ping: google.com: Name
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or Service is not known" was returned.
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## Research
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Using my phone, I decided to search about the issues on forums to see if I could find a solution. During this search I found [this post][post] that discussed having a simmilar issue to mine.
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## Later Discoveries (updated: 1/22/2021)
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I figured out the issue, but haven't had the time to update this.
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I eventually found out that the service dhcpcd was where I was having my issues, as when I found out how to configure NetworkManager to set to give systemd-resolved the DNS duties. After doing this I no longer had issues.
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All that was left was to solve my constant MAC randomization.
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In my NetworkManager.conf file I configured it to stop randomizing my mac so much.
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#This allows it to Randomize My MAC
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[device-mac-randomization]
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wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes
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#This forces it to stay at the most stable MAC
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[connection-mac-randomization]
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wifi.clone-mac-address=stable
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After doing a bit of digging I found that this config file for **iwd** alowed it to take over DNS duties.
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# This allows iwd to take over DNS duties
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[General]
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EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
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### Packages
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- [NetworkManager][NetworkManager]
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- [dhcpcd][dhcpcd]
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### Sources
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- [Post Mentioned Above][post]
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[post]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237074&p=7
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[dhcpcd]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dhcpcd
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[NetworkManager]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager
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