I went into TCC/Internet & Network/Network Settings, added the two IP addresses for Cloudflare's DNS service and applied them.
The apps will then use the Cloudflare DNS addresses only for that session, if logging out and rebooting, it will revert back to the ISP's DNS servers upon the next login.
I was under the impression that such settings (which I have seen in other distros) were independent of whatever is in the system's resolv.conf file. Is there a way of permanently saving the other DNS addresses? The ISP's gateway software has their DNS addresses 'grayed out' (for lack of a better term) and they cannot be changed in the gateway. Cloudflare's DNS service has a faster response time than the ISP's, from here.
Thanks in advance.
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Edward wrote:
I was under the impression that such settings (which I have seen in other distros) were independent of whatever is in the system's resolv.conf file. Is there a way of permanently saving the other DNS addresses? The ISP's gateway software has their DNS addresses 'grayed out' (for lack of a better term) and they cannot be changed in the gateway. Cloudflare's DNS service has a faster response time than the ISP's, from here.
the resolv.conf is a symlink if you use a subsystem to handle the DNS entries (network manager or dhclient)
you either put your setting in the subsystem of choice or remove the symlink and create a static file. The last option will probably couse troubles with some of these subsystems.
On 3/25/21 2:41 AM, deloptes wrote:
Edward wrote:
I was under the impression that such settings (which I have seen in other distros) were independent of whatever is in the system's resolv.conf file. Is there a way of permanently saving the other DNS addresses? The ISP's gateway software has their DNS addresses 'grayed out' (for lack of a better term) and they cannot be changed in the gateway. Cloudflare's DNS service has a faster response time than the ISP's, from here.
the resolv.conf is a symlink if you use a subsystem to handle the DNS entries (network manager or dhclient)
you either put your setting in the subsystem of choice or remove the symlink and create a static file. The last option will probably couse troubles with some of these subsystems.
It looks to be too much to change the default DNS addresses. An option I have, is to plug in a router to the ISP's gateway and input the Cloudflare DNS addresses into the router. Although if I use it, I lose IPv6.
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