Ubuntu - need to manually activate after each reboot about nextdns HOT 8 CLOSED

The main problem was the restart of NetworkManager instead of reload, which was disturbing the boot process. Other commits are to fix errors you always get at startup because the network is not yet reachable. Your log output should be cleaner now.

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What do you get for nextdns version and nextdns config.

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Oh I'm sorry I didn't include the config earlier.

nextdns version

nextdns version 1.3.0

nextdns config

listen localhost:53
config xxxxxx
log-queries false
report-client-info true
detect-captive-portals false
hardened-privacy false
bogus-priv true
timeout 5s
auto-activate false

I also tried an apt purge nextdns and then reinstall it and then re-set it up with

sudo nextdns install -report-client-info -config xxxxxx -auto-activate

(So auto-activate becomes true in the above config) - but that made no difference either. After a reboot, the conf file is still being overwritten. As before, the systemctl status for nextdns looks the same as first post.

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I also see

$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nextdns.conf 
[main]
dns=none

So that should prevent anything overwriting /etc/resolv.conf is that right? (I am not knowledgeable in this area)

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Can you send your journalctl -b just after a full boot?

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OK here you go, thanks for looking at it

issue33-journalctlb.txt

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Please try 1.3.1

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You've done it! I've rebooted multiple times now and nextdns is sticking in place. Thanks for your help with both issues.

So if I'm understanding it right, you had to do a reload instead of try-restart, and also set the dependency on network.target instead of network-online.target - I see some more commits after that but I guess that is to help with future troubleshooting and maintenance.

In the meantime I had been using a workaround - I added dns=none under [main] in the /etc/NetworkManager/Networkmanager.conf file to get nextdns settings to persist.

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