Dendrobatus Azureus<p>Internet is a service that you do not need 24 hours a day. In fact you should be able to turn on and turn off your Connection when you need it just like in the PPP days</p><p>In the past couple of days, when I was without an active internet connection, I was able to deduct the reason why sudo asks for a connection to the internet when my Gateway, one of my gateways, has none.</p><p>It turns out that for some reason sudo is looking for a FQDN {fully qualified domain name} on the Internet.</p><p>I wonder why, because on my SBC the name of the Server ends with .local </p><p>In order not to get this extremely annoying error, which slows down everything that you need to do with sudo, with a delay of Sixty to One Hundred Twenty seconds, you just need to turn off any network connection on the machine.</p><p>It was extremely annoying on the SBC, because I was making a duplicate of a USB stick, which constantly needed to invoke the sudo command, in order to write the data, with commands that needs root access to the device.</p><p>To give you an indication of the scope of the delay; a task which normally needs thirty minutes, took twelve hours and still failed, simply because it took way too long. </p><p>I am however a Bèta Tester. I love these interesting levels of troubleshooting with things that seem to be totally unrelated.</p><p>TLDR:</p><p>Disconnect your network when you need to use sudo if your gateways has no internet heartbeat</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SUDO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SUDO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SBC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FQDN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FQDN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/permission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permission</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/troubleshooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>troubleshooting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a></p>