🐧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 https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/issues/2116

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.