From: David Cowden <dcow@eero.com>
To: Fabian Schwamborn <fabian@familie-schwamborn.com>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Optional DNS-Check or Ping-test for the Android App
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:57:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACN7iOBjmzC9Ft3JRObFFABuuAbdVjD7UkaXxYcXtLE9n4WKMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4844f7fa-6e60-4fe3-30b3-e9f87952235b@familie-schwamborn.com>
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You need to setup dns for your home site then use that to connect. Or you
need to synchronize the endpoint out of band. I can't imagine this is
something wg wants to tackle--this is a general problem all software
encounters.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:52 PM Fabian Schwamborn <
fabian@familie-schwamborn.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a suggestion for improving the Android app or would like to ask if
> such a change would be desirable in general (e.g. pull request):
>
> I'm using Wireguard as a connection between my home router and my mobile
> phone, but unfortunately I don't have a fixed IP address. As soon as the IP
> address changes, the app does not reconnect. (Happens once a week)
>
> Is it possible to integrate a function into the app, that pings through
> the tunnel so that you can perform a keep-alive check and reconnect the
> tunnel completely after a failure (including DNS request)?
>
> Is it conceivable, to implement a DNS-check function in the app? (E.g.
> like the existing example DNS check script for Linux works?)
>
> Then the app would have the same functionality as my previous IP-Sec
> client. This would also allow better coverage of failover IP scenarios.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Fabian
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-15 21:49 Optional DNS-Check or Ping-test for the Android App Fabian Schwamborn
2019-01-16 20:57 ` David Cowden [this message]
2019-01-16 21:29 ` Fabian Schwamborn
2019-01-16 22:06 ` David Cowden
2019-01-24 23:20 ` Fabian Schwamborn
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