#1 2025-05-07 16:06:55

jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

Posts: 156

Cannot access DNS when installing Boron version 12

I am in the process of installing Boron on a laptop. I have installed Boron on several PC's before and have not run into this problem.

I believe my problem is that the new installation is not accessing DNS information properly. If I bring up firefox and click on a website link, instead of going to the web page, firefox displays a page that says:

  Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site.

  We can't connect to the server at www.somesite.com

Or if I run:

  ping www.somesite.com

the error message is:

  ping: www.somesite.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

A quick search on the internet leads me to believe that DNS data is not available on the PC where I am installing Bunsenlabs.

My /etc/resolv.conf file has the entry:

   Nameserver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

I can ping the address 8.8.8.8 and get a response, but if I ping www.google.com, I get the following error message:

   ping: www.google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

I found a post at:

   https://phoenixnap.com/kb/temporary-fai … resolution

which advised restarting systemd-resolved.service, but when I tried restarting the service, it was not found, neither on the current installation PC or on the PC from which I entering this post. The post was from Nov 2023, so it could be out of date.

Can anyone help with suggestions on getting the DNS service working on this current installation?

Thanks for you time!

Jim Anderson

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Re: Cannot access DNS when installing Boron version 12

My /etc/resolv.conf file has the entry:

   Nameserver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

That is incorrect, it should be nameserver, the capitalisation is important.

I think BunsenLabs should be using NetworkManager to populate that file though, is there a message to that effect at the top?

It's always best to post full configuration files rather than snippets, just in case we can spot something you've missed.

To switch to systemd-resolved simply install the systemd-resolved package. Not much point though (IMO) because it doesn't offer any improvements but adds overhead to the desktop, which is why BL doesn't use it by default.

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jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

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Re: Cannot access DNS when installing Boron version 12

Thank you for your response (and solution)!

I replaced 'Nameserver' with 'nameserver' and all is well.

Believe it or not, the entire resolve.conf file was:

   # Generated by NetworkManager
   Nameserver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Somewhere along the line I may have unintentionally changed to 'Nameserver', but I really don't see why I would have. It says generated by NetworkManager, and it probably was, but I will bite the bullet and say that I did it. Hmmm?

Jim A