So that I will remember!

When running WSL in a corporate environment, I sometimes an error like the following, where the cli is not able to resolve the IP address correctly. This error is from terraform but I have seen it elsewhere.

╷ │ Error: Failed to query available provider packages │ │ Could not retrieve the list of available versions for provider hashicorp/random: could not connect to registry.terraform.io: failed to request discovery document: Get │ “https://registry.terraform.io/.well-known/terraform.json": dial tcp: lookup registry.terraform.io on 123.45.67.89:53: read udp 123.45.67.89:51522->123.45.67.89:53: i/o timeout

to fix it

Change the DNS Server in /etc/resolv.conf

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sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

I normally just change the nameserver to 1.1.1.1

You will need to do this for every tab you open or you can follow the instructions to set it permanently

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# This file was automatically generated by WSL. To stop automatic generation of this file, add the following entry to /etc/wsl.conf:
# [network]
# generateResolvConf = false

Now I know :-)