Seriously? ... SERIOUSLY?
~inquiry
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I'll be danged if I can solve what seems like a DNS problem that
lives somewhere between my Chromebook and our new T-Mobile
"wireless 5G" router.

I thought I had it licked several times, from modifying network
settings in Chrome (DNS servers associated with the wifi
connection), to doing the same in the Linux container-ed in
Chrome's "Terminal" app (changing /etc/resolv.conf content, and
running whatever makes such changes "take" (until next reboot, of
course...), to flushing iptables. Bah....

What seems to work is trying to keep data flowing. It's as though
something in the "pipe" goes to sleep, and needs to be re-awoken,
leading me to writing the following Lua script, and running it in
the background:

```
#! /usr/bin/env lua
local stop_file = os.getenv('HOME') .. '/stop-alive'
if arg[1] then
os.execute('touch ' .. stop_file)
else
while true do
local handle = io.open(stop_file)
if handle then
handle:close()
os.execute('rm -f ' .. stop_file)
break
end
os.execute('pg 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null; sleep 30')
end
end
```

where "pg" is another script (separated out so I can run it
manually from time to time):

```
ping -c 10 google.com.
```

It just seems so silly to have to be doing such in 2024. And yet
it's seemingly par for the "how software perpetually finds a way to
become worse" course. But despite being annoyingly unsatisfying,
it's improved the situation quite a bit.

Oh, so be sufficiently "ignorantly blissful" to be happy with
Windows or MacOS, and just buy another device and throw the old one
away whenever encountering said unavoidable "evolution of the
situation"....