Rclone mount random slow speeds

[ashlar]

@Nebarik

Ok so this either because you began this test with a already modified hosts file with all those IPs. Or its because your hosts file isn't being overwritten from backup. I'm guessing that's because you used a incorrect password for sudo permissions (all hosts file related commands require sudo) and the script just simply carried on. But there might be another reason that will need a little searching for you.

I'd recommend clearing out those IPs manually from your hosts file "sudo nano /etc/hosts", and then delete the hosts backup that it's got to start fresh "sudo rm /etc/hosts.backup". Then give it another shot starting from this fresh begining.

Right, I think it's now working correctly. One single IP in hosts file at any given time during script running. One at the end, the fastest measured.

It all appears to be working just fine. There's no need to flush DNS as, I tested this, hosts file content takes precedence. As soon as I change the IP in hosts file a ping to www.googleapis.com goes to that IP.

I still suggest anyone capable of translating the script to a Windows batch file to do so. The hurdles to overcome to have it run under WSL are... tedious, let's say.

EDIT:

One thing you might wanna check out in your script: if more than one IP gives the same result, all are inserted in the hosts file but only one with correct syntax, like this:

142.251.209.42
216.58.212.170
142.250.184.42
142.250.180.170	www.googleapis.com

I don't think it creates an error in use but it might be problematic for following runs of the script, maybe? Maybe not, since hosts.backup should be an empty file and it's restored before testing... well, I thought it was worth to point this out anyway.