Re: remove peer endpoint

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:13 AM em12345 <em12345@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> in my case the reason is not exactly being able to remove the endpoint,
> but rather being able to setup a peer without endpoint, so that only the
> endpoint needs to be setup later.
>
> Scenario:
> All keys for interface and peer are configured via "wg" standard config
> file, so that the interface can be brought up at boot time.
>
> But when having to use a to be resolved host name as endpoint, then the
> boot process blocks for around a minute in case no network (incl. DNS)
> is available. At least when running systemd reading
> /etc/network/interfaces. I'm not using systemd builtin wg support.
>
> There is of course the possibility to bring up the wg-* interfaces later
> altogether. But the easiest way for me was to use a local endpoint IP
> (127.0.1.1) address, and then use up/down scripts triggered on LAN/WLAN
> up/down, which then only resolve the endpoint host name and set via wg
> the resolved IP of that.
>
> This way I'm also able to use several hostnames from different DynDNS
> providers, in case one service provider is down, which wg as far as I
> know doesn't currently support.
> I.e:
>         1.) resolve first host name
>         2.) set endpoint IP on peer
>         3.) ping into tunnel to see if it is working
>         4.) if not working, then try next host name
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emmanuel

You've misunderstood the discussion. Nobody is discussing removing the
ability to set an endpoint after the interface has been configured.
This exists and works today and isn't going anywhere. Rather, this is
a discussion about being able to unset an endpoint.
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