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peter1337

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Registered: 2022-08-12

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How to disable Arch Linux pinging ping.archlinug.org forever?

Clearly it's a privacy issue. I tried editing `/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf` by adding `interval=0`, which works, but unfortunately, after a `networkmanager` package update, the config is overwritten. `chmod -w /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf` doesn't work either.

Lithium Sulfate

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Registered: 2020-07-01

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Re: How to disable Arch Linux pinging ping.archlinug.org forever?

Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … nnectivity you should be able to create a custom /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf file which will override the other file's settings, and will not get overwritten on updates.

WorMzy

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Re: How to disable Arch Linux pinging ping.archlinug.org forever?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … nnectivity

Edit: too slow

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mikewhy

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Registered: 2026-04-16

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Re: How to disable Arch Linux pinging ping.archlinug.org forever?

Necro so will probably get the thread closed, but I'm not running NetworkManager and yet `ping.archlinux.org` has more than double the requests from the next top domain in pihole. All from a single machine running arch. The next top domain is something Apple related, and there's like 7 apple devices on the network.

WorMzy

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Re: How to disable Arch Linux pinging ping.archlinug.org forever?

Yup. Don't do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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