Ah, hmm that's interesting. Thanks for the tip. By "makes wifi easier," you mean that it makes managing wifi connections easier yeah?
Also, since one of connman's advertised strengths is its light resource use, just wondering: is it a substantial savings over something like network manager? On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 8:48:48 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:52 PM, neutrinos4all <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I was redirected here from your Twitter account maintainer to post my > > experience installing pi-hole on a BBB with a freshly-flashed IoT image > > (version information below). Hopefully this will help someone else in > the > > future. > > > > What I'm using > > > > element14 BeagleBone Black rev. C, connected via ethernet to router > > Asus NT-66R router > > Debian 8.6 ("Jessie") IoT image, retrieved from here. > > > > What happened > > After flashing the IoT image to onboard eMMC and installing pi-hole > > successfully, I had no DNS connectivity: could ping IPs, but not visit > > websites by URL from any machine on the LAN. What's more, dnsmasq was > not > > running. I determined that connman was binding to port 53 rather than > > dnsmasq, thereby preventing dnsmasq from resolving DNS requests for > pi-hole > > (confirm using command lsof +M -nPi :53 to see the services bound to > that > > port). Uninstalling connman and restarting the network service allowed > > dnsmasq to run, fixing the DNS problem. Web browsing was immediately > > restored across the LAN. > > Depending what is hooked up wifi/ethernet/etc, we dynamically > enable/disable conman's dnsproxy option: > > So instead of purging connman, you do below: > > sudo systemctl stop connman.service > sudo sed -i -e 's:connmand -n:connmand -n --nodnsproxy:g' > /lib/systemd/system/connman.service > sudo systemctl daemon-reload > sudo systemctl start connman.service > > Then dnsmasq will fire up just fine, and you can still use connman for > managing your connections (connman makes wifi easier).. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/f02fae14-e940-4bc9-8dc2-41936f19e26e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
