[Solved] netctl and slow dns server

vitiral · 2015-09-16 03:29:06

Hey everyone, this is my first post on Arch linux forum. I just started using arch about a month ago and I love it. It has made it so easy to get my perfect desktop environment (arch + i3 is the best!)

One of the things I love about Arch is how fast the networking is... was... is again! About a week ago it suddently started taking up to 2 minutes to be able to browse the web and connect over vpn every time I came from suspended mode.

I finally found the solution tonight -- I could ping 8.8.8.8 even though I couldn't get to google. I added the following lines to my netctl profile:

```
DNS=('8.8.8.8')
```

And that did the trick! It now connects almost instantly again.

Now what I would like to do is make 8.8.8.8 standard for every network profile (without me having to modify it every time), but I couldn't find a good way to do that from the documentation. Anyone have any ideas?

jasonwryan · 2015-09-16 03:41:52

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resolv.conf

kozaki · 2015-09-17 09:57:13

You can create a file called /etc/resolv.conf.head containing your DNS servers. dhcpcd will prepend this file to the beginning of /etc/resolv.conf.
If privacy is something you care about then have a look on the 'Alternative DNS servers' paragraph in the wiki.
Also namebench is a DNS testing tool; it can tell you what are the fastest/nearest DNS servers for the NNN last sites you visited (uses your chosen $BROWSER history). Last but not the least, dnsmasq can be used to make our DNS requests fly and have better privacy }:-)

Last edited by kozaki (2015-09-17 09:58:52)

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#1 2015-09-16 03:29:06

[Solved] netctl and slow dns server

#2 2015-09-16 03:41:52

Re: [Solved] netctl and slow dns server

#3 2015-09-17 09:57:13

Re: [Solved] netctl and slow dns server

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