openresolv dependency

[Jörg Thalheim]

On 2017-05-22 02:08, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
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> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Bzzzz <lazyvirus at gmx.com <mailto:lazyvirus at gmx.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, 22 May 2017 02:41:13 +0200
>     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com <mailto:Jason at zx2c4.com>> wrote:
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>     > https://github.com/EggieCode/wireguard-ppa/issues/19 <https://github.com/EggieCode/wireguard-ppa/issues/19>
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>     Following your comment, you could flip the resolvconf dependency from
>     a mandatory one to a a recommand or even a suggest, with a few comment
>     lines into the /usr/share/doc/README.Debian file.
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> The problem is that I would like to be able to use the -x and -m switches of resolvconf, which only openresolv has. However, it appears that openresolv does not work very well out of the box on Ubuntu.
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> So, I'm not quite sure what I can recommend to Ubuntu users as a reliable way of setting a per-interface DNS override. Or even what command I could put in wg-quick to encapsulate that kind of logic.
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> Any ideas?
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If I recall correctly ubuntu 16.10+ switched to systemd-resolved, which has a saner way of per-interface DNS server
(I would even say the first true DNS server per-interface resolver implementation at all on linux).