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Fixing DNS problems on Ubuntu 16.04 (zesty)

Last Saturday, one of our laptops running Ubuntu 16.04 zesty suddenly couldn’t get on the Internet anymore. It connected to the router and could ping IPs, but DNS lookups failed, so no browsing…

‘locate’ on Ubuntu with an encrypted home dir

recently, i noticed that the locate command on my ubuntu system didn’t work as expected. it simply didn’t list files located in my $HOME dir, while it did still list files in the…