[getdns-users] Stubby constantly has to be restarted to work in Manjaro

Advrk Aplmrkt avkaplmkt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 14:43:27 UTC 2018


I see. I originally installed stubby from the Manjaro Linux Community
repository, so it's a prebuilt binary. Should I uninstall that first,
then follow your instructions to build from source? (sorry I'm kind of
new to this so some hand holding needed...)

On 20/06/2018, Willem Toorop <willem at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> These patches apply to the getdns source.  How did you install stubby
> initially?  If you followed these instructions:
>
> 	https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3145786
>
> Then you can just do that again, as the patches are on the develop
> branch of the repository already...
>
> If you succeed you should see getdns version 1.4.3-rc1 reported with
> stubby -i. i.e.:
>
> {
>   "all_context":
>   {
>     "add_warning_for_bad_dns": GETDNS_EXTENSION_FALSE,
>
> etc.
>
>   "resolution_type": GETDNS_RESOLUTION_STUB,
>   "version_number": 17040065,
>   "version_string": <bindata of "1.4.3-rc1">
> }
>
>
> Cheers,
> -- Willem
>
> Op 20-06-18 om 13:10 schreef Advrk Aplmrkt:
>> Thanks for getting back to me! I'm happy to apply the patch, but I am
>> unfamiliar with stubby. To which files to I apply the patches to???
>>
>> On 20/06/2018, Willem Toorop <willem at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>>> Op 19-06-18 om 21:40 schreef Advrk Aplmrkt:
>>>> Thanks Willem, here's the output of `stubby -i`:
>>>>
>>>> https://framabin.org/p/?8a235367bb28d8de#wpiW/+3K66F4yFqr6aRd1enfCGC+NolOEoG/SG21NGM=
>>>>
>>>> And here's the output of `getdns_query -i`:
>>>>
>>>> https://framabin.org/p/?9e9fed3b8d641187#/5y59RJ4tVtbtZcIPeQKRv+Nsnamy9LA1dIpF/jby6c=
>>>>
>>>> Do you see any problems with it?
>>>
>>> I notice you do have DNSSEC validation enabled and we do have a bug
>>> since 1.4.2 (introduced with the partly trace DNSSEC up from the root
>>> fix). Could you give the attached two patches a try and see if that
>>> works?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -- Willem
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>
>>>> On 18/06/2018, Willem Toorop <willem at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Advrk,
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you provide a few more details on the versions?
>>>>> The output of
>>>>>
>>>>> stubby -i
>>>>>
>>>>> and/or
>>>>>
>>>>> getdns_query -i
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Willem
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 16-06-18 om 16:01 schreef Advrk Aplmrkt:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been using Stubby on default settings per the instructions here
>>>>>> for several months:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Daemon+-+Stubby
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I installed it from the official repositories for my Manjaro Linux
>>>>>> system and I used Network Manager to point my home wifi connection to
>>>>>> always use Stubby for DNS at 127.0.0.1. It worked well enough until a
>>>>>> few weeks ago when all DNS look ups on this system failed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I discovered that after restarting Stubby via the command "systemctl
>>>>>> restart stubby" makes DNS lookups work again, **but only for a few
>>>>>> minutes at a time!!!**
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So now, I have to keep a terminal window open all the time and rerun
>>>>>> "systemctl restart stubby" every few minutes just to keep my Internet
>>>>>> connection working... This is clearly not a sustainable solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone advise on how to troubleshoot this issue? Thanks!
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