James Wilson wilsjame

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

How to automatically start ssh server on boot on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft partnered with Canonical to create Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, running through a technology called the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Below are instructions on how to set up the ssh server to run automatically at boot.

Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by running the command sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and do the following
1. Change Port to 2222 (or any other port above 1000)
2. Change PasswordAuthentication to yes. This can be changed back to no if ssh keys are setup.
Restart the ssh server:
- sudo service ssh --full-restart
With this setup, the ssh server must be turned on every time you run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, as by default it is off. Use this command to turn it on:

Ways to remap caps lock to control on Windows 10

These methods in this gist worked for me on my U.S.-based keyboard layouts. I am unsure about other layouts. If you have problems, revert your changes; delete the registry key you created (and reboot).

Update: you should probably scroll down to approach 4 where I suggest using Microsoft PowerToys Keyboard Manager.

Approach 1. Manually through regedit

Navigate to and create a new binary value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout named Scancode Map.

Revert the full commit

Sometimes you may want to undo a whole commit with all changes. Instead of going through all the changes manually, you can simply tell git to revert a commit, which does not even have to be the last one. Reverting a commit means to create a new commit that undoes all changes that were made in the bad commit. Just like above, the bad commit remains there, but it no longer affects the the current master and any future commits on top of it.

git revert {commit_id}

About History Rewriting

Delete the last commit

Deleting the last commit is the easiest case. Let's say we have a remote origin with branch master that currently points to commit dd61ab32. We want to remove the top commit. Translated to git terminology, we want to force the master branch of the origin remote repository to the parent of dd61ab32:

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

	Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html) # Pattern: Googlebot\/ / URL: http://www.google.com/bot.html
	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) # Pattern: Googlebot\/ / URL: http://www.google.com/bot.html
	Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) # Pattern: Googlebot\/ / URL: http://www.google.com/bot.html
	Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) # Pattern: Googlebot\/ / URL: http://www.google.com/bot.html
	Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) # Pattern: Googlebot\/ / URL: http://www.google.com/bot.html
	Mozilla

	#!/bin/sh

	git filter-branch --env-filter '

	OLD_EMAIL="[email protected]"
	CORRECT_NAME="Your Correct Name"
	CORRECT_EMAIL="[email protected]"

	if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
	then

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	LD SP,$fffe ; $0000 Setup Stack

	XOR A ; $0003 Zero the memory from $8000-$9FFF (VRAM)
	LD HL,$9fff ; $0004
	Addr_0007:
	LD (HL-),A ; $0007
	BIT 7,H ; $0008
	JR NZ, Addr_0007 ; $000a

	LD HL,$ff26 ; $000c Setup Audio