# Linux troubleshooting ### Setting your DNS If you're having issues with resolving .loki addresses, you need to edit your resolv.conf files and add your DNS resolver. **Method 1** Install `systemd-resolved` and let that manage dns. ``` apt install systemd-resolved ``` **Method 2** Install `resolvconf` and let that manage dns. ``` apt install resolvconf ``` Then restart `lokinet.service` with systemd. If resolvconf by itself doesn't work, you'll need to add the Lokinet nameserver manually to resolvconf. ``` sudo nano /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head ``` Add the following line at the bottom of this file: ``` nameserver 127.3.2.1 ``` Once that line is added, hold Ctrl and type X, then type Enter to confirm the file changes. Next we need to update our /etc/resolv.conf file by running the command: ``` sudo resolvconf -u ``` Then restart `lokinet.service` with systemd. ### Lokinet becomes "stuck" trying to connect to the network. As of `0.9.11` there is an issue where sometimes lokinet will get into a bad state and refuse to connect to the network. This case is not related network censors blocking lokinet, it's a bug. see If this happens, makes ure you back up any persisting private keys for .loki and.... * stop the lokinet service * remove `/var/lib/lokinet/profiles.dat` * start the lokinet service This will remove the client's inferred network state that it slowly generates over time, thus will start retrying nodes it thought were dead before. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/products-built-on-oxen/lokinet/guides/linux-troubleshooting.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.