Hello everyone,
Of late, I have had more frequent notifications about the app store not being able to get an address for apps.grapheneos.org (Details: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "apps.grapheneos.org": No address associated with hostname)
I am trying to see what may cause it to pop up and have decided to get my VPN on at all times for now to see if that may be the issue, this is a Wireguard link to my VPS which also runs unbound as DNS server over the Wireguard connection. It's a recent Graphene OS install on a Pixel 8, fully up to date, and I did not change the default settings for Private DNS (automatic).
A couple of observations so far:
- I tried to increase the frequency of the checks to every hour, and I don't think that I noticed a failure with hourly checks. With checks every 6 hrs, that seems to fail more often though not all the time.
- Oddly, the 2x it failed today, checking the logs of unbound, my VPS does not get the query for
apps.grapheneos.org but gets a bunch of other DNS queries on the same minute as the failure notification for the App Store. I've just set up a logging rule on my VPS on the off chance this shows traffic dropping.
Before digging deeper though, the app logs shows a bunch of SELinux denials at the same time of the failed DNS request - which may be normal too, I'm no SELinux wizard, but have seen denials regularly on Fedora so that may be nothing as well as the following:
JobServiceContext: Sending onNetworkChanged for a job that isn't started. JobStatus{xxx app.grapheneos.apps/.autoupdate.AutoUpdateJob xxx}
For now, I've given unrestricted battery perms to Wireguard but I am not sure that a power management issue would be consistent with seeing other DNS queries coming on my VPS at the same time as the failed check for apps.grapheneos.org (or at least within the same 1-2 minutes). The App Store battery usage is optimized but I suppose that's OK if that's the default.
I'd be happy to move that to github and/or hear of any suggestions as to why the DNS queries may be failing (it's happened both on 5G and home wifi when connected through the VPN, I'll see without VPN connection).
Thanks a lot in advance!