[Solved] retaining WSL DNS configuration
So this will be my final post on this.
To avoid the annoyance of /etc/resolve.conf being overwritten with a bad configuration every restart of LxssManager, I’m doing what several forums suggested, and making the file immutable. First need to unlink it from /mnt/wsl/resolv.conf since can’t make that immutable. I using google servers, rather than a local gateway since that would change between home and work.
$ sudo chattr +i /mnt/wsl/resolv.conf
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /mnt/wsl/resolv.conf
$ sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
$ sudo sh -c 'echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf'
$ sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
Now after restarting LxssManager…
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
$ PING google.com (142.250.70.238) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mel05s02-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.70.238): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=61.1 ms
That is sufficient for now.