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DNS issues
This portion of the repo contains the information on the aggravating issues reguarding my installs tendency to have DNS troubles and connectivity issues.
Issues: 1) DNS * has issues with resolving domain names (ex: google.com) 2) Connectivity * has trouble with even connecting to outside servers
Network Managers Installed
- iwd
- NetworkManager
- wpa_supplicant
- netctl
DNS services installed
- dhcpcd
- systemd-resolved
Information Gathered
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.
I would ping (8.8.8.8) one of googles public dns servers to test if my connection was working, however when I did the following message was returned " ping: connect: Network is Unreachable".
This by itself could mean a that either my network is offline or my computer just isn't connected to my wifi.
The other issue with my os not being able to resolve the host name. This happened everytime I tried to ping a server using the domain name. When I tried originally the message "ping: google.com: Name or Service is not known" was returned.
Research
Using my phone, I decided to search about the issues on forums to see if I could find a solution. The following pages are ones that I've visited:
Here the issue that the poster mentioned having was simmilar to that of mine. However it