Make the agent more resilient against DNS issues

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Make the agent more resilient against DNS issues #1769

Open P6g9YHK6 opened 4 months ago

P6g9YHK6 commented 4 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When an agent loses DNS services it will not work anymore. (Mesh is not or less impacted)

Describe the solution you'd like when a dns resolution fails it should fallback to the latest known working ip that was replied and probably changes the color of the "connectivity icon" to yellow or else.

Additional context https://discord.com/channels/736478043522072608/1204337171633283092

dinger1986 commented 3 months ago

could this not be simply accomplished by using a script which updates the hosts file?

P6g9YHK6 commented 3 months ago

yes, but in this case i got the feeling that this is more a global "tactical" issue than a client sided one :) for exemple the ESET management agent allow to set a list of whole lists of different addresses to access to the console. while my proposal does not go as far as this it is a common industry issue.

bbrendon commented 3 months ago

LoL. I came here to say WTF. but I see the comment was deleted.