Error in network definition: unknown key dhcp4-overrides

Question

I am trying to set up Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which appears to be using netplan to configure networking. In this case I need to override the DNS servers provided by DHCP and use manually assigned nameservers. So I modified the netplan configuration as follows:

# For more information, see netplan(5).
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enp2s1:
      dhcp4: yes
      dhcp4-overrides:
        use-dns: false
      dhcp6: yes
      dhcp6-overrides:
        use-dns: false
      nameservers:
        addresses: ["fd35:2ff0:b0b9:d0c0::1:1", 192.168.255.17]

In another question, and on netplan.io, it was explained that netplan had options dhcp4-overrides and dhcp6-overrides which would permit this, but these don't appear to work. netplan generate or netplan apply gives the error:

Error in network definition //etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml line 6 column 6: unknown key dhcp4-overrides

How, then, can I be sure that my specified nameservers will be used, and the nameservers obtained from DHCP will never be used? I'm willing to toss netplan in the bin if necessary.

Answer 1

dhcp4-overrides requires netplan 0.95 or later, which is not yet available in Ubuntu 18.04. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1759014 for the status of this stable update.

Answer 2

I'm about halfway to throwing netplan in the bin, but I have a workaround that appears to work.

Seeing that it was rendering to networkd, and that systemd-resolved was handling DNS, I just created the relevant configuration directly.

I dropped the dhcp overrides bits from netplan, leaving me with only:

# For more information, see netplan(5).
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enp2s1:
      dhcp4: yes
      dhcp6: yes

Then I created a file /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/dns.conf to specify the DNS servers I needed:

[Resolve]
DNS=fd35:2ff0:b0b9:d0c0::1:1 192.168.255.17