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From: Vincent Wiemann <vincent.wiemann@ironai.com>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: DNS name resolution should not be done during configuration parsing.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:26:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8b55fa4-225b-b91b-8193-626be7b8d349@ironai.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJxGdG2G+busk12y==dZOL2__+C1T6nQy+tGRJM=M65-SuZ5Q@mail.gmail.com>

It would be great if WireGuard could resolve DNS without one having to
call the userspace configuration tool manually (e.g. to support DynDNS).
One could build up on
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt ,
but it's a lot of work and shouldn't be a goal before WireGuard becomes
an upstream kernel module.

Regards,

Vincent Wiemann

On 17.02.2019 04:03, David Kerr wrote:
> Erik, see here for a proposed fix.  No response from the WireGuard team
> yet. 
> 
> https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-January/003842.html
> 
> Recently I had a power outage and both my gateway and cable modem went
> offline. On power recovery both devices start up, but the gateway
> completes startup before the cable modem completes its protocol
> negotiations, so initially the external network (eth0) is not
> functional.  That comes online say one minute later and all is well.
> 
> Except that all is not well.  Wireguard failed to start up because I
> have Endpoint=<a URL> instead of a IP address.  And because external
> interface is not live yet, DNS lookup fails and Wireguard does not
> gracefully handle it.  This is really important because Wireguard may be
> my only way into my local network.
> 
> As work-around I replaced the URL with the IP address... but that is not
> a long term solution if the endpoint is not a static IP address.
> 
> Wireguard needs to handle the situation where external network may not
> have stabilized at the time it starts up.  The above link proposed a fix. 
> 
> David
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14 22:28 Eryk Wieliczko
2019-02-17  3:03 ` David Kerr
2019-02-17  4:08   ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-02-17 12:40     ` Eryk Wieliczko
2019-02-17 13:07       ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-02-17 13:15         ` Eryk Wieliczko
2019-02-19  3:01     ` zrm
2019-02-19  7:22       ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-02-19 14:26         ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2019-02-19 15:45         ` Vincent Wiemann
2019-02-21  7:59           ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-02-22  1:29             ` Vincent Wiemann
2019-02-19 14:58       ` David Kerr
2019-02-17 12:47   ` Eryk Wieliczko
2019-02-17 18:26   ` Vincent Wiemann [this message]

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