In this local network, there is only one name to address configured in dd-wrt. dnsmasq The only true dns server is at my ISP and its been that way here since RH5.0 in 1998. I have NO M$ experience in my personal history, coming into modern computing by way of a TRS-80 Color computer running os-9, to amigados, about 10 of them as I drug WDTV-5 into the computer age when I became the Chief Engineer in 1984, but I started computing in 1978 at KRCR-12 in Redding Kalipornia. Writing a utility to prepare an automatic station break machines tapes for air that ran on an RCA-1802 and 4k os static ram that cost $400 back then. But lets get back on topic. What I want for outside names NOT in /etc/hosts: the query gets passed to the router at 192.168.71,1:53 where dnsmasq checks to see if its in its cache, and failing that, fwds the query to the dns server at my ISP for resolution. That address is not known on my side of the router. This typically adds about 1.5ms to the ping time. And nowhere in that chain fails this sequence EXCEPT this new install on a bananapi-m5. And I don't have to screw around maintaining a separate dns server of any kind. That is several times the amount of monkey business of cp-ing a common hosts file around is. But you want to insist on a dns server behind every RJ-45 jack in the house. I don't understand the Why? This is simple, quick and bulletproof until somebody decides to fix a perceived security hole, WHICH DOES NOT EXIST IF the router is reflashed with dd-wrt. I have not been touched since finding out about it in yr 1999-2000. Including a decade of running my own web page right here on this machine, stopped only because the spiders refused to honor my robots.txt. So I was paying bandwidth penalties of $150 or more a month on an SS income with my upload bandwidth filled by the robots from mj12. Whoever the hell they are. M$ spiders were in there too. People interested in my stuff couldn't get a word in edgewise. So please tell me where in the resolv.conf area what to edit to make it work, cuz I'll do it and a chattr +i on it to make it permanent. But the fix for debian bookworm, didn't fix this.

@thanh_tan This looks like an AI-generated adaptation of my Radxa Cubie A7Z Armbian build. The Orange Pi 4 Pro uses the same Allwinner A733, so the family config is shared, but Radxa's BSP isn't directly compatible with the Orange Pi 4 Pro without board-specific modifications. Looking at the repo, it's very early stage — The write_uboot_platform() function is just a stub that does nothing, and it's relying on whatever bootloader is already on the SD card. I wouldn't expect it to actually boot on real hardware in its current state.

bellow the conclusion of 4 days of investigations and it works create dts file in tmp directory root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# cat meson-sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0.dts /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "amlogic,meson-sm1"; fragment@0 { target-path = "/soc/bus@ffd00000/i2c@1d000"; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; clock-frequency = <100000>; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&i2c2_pins>; }; }; fragment@1 { target-path = "/soc/bus@ff600000/bus@34400/pinctrl@40"; __overlay__ { i2c2_pins: i2c2_pins { mux { groups = "i2c2_sda_x", "i2c2_sck_x"; function = "i2c2"; bias-disable; drive-strength-microamp = <3000>; }; }; }; }; fragment@2 { target-path = "/soc/bus@ffd00000/i2c@1d000"; __overlay__ { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; rtc@68 { compatible = "maxim,ds3231"; reg = <0x68>; }; }; }; }; compile the dts on a tmp directory root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o meson-sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0.dtbo meson-sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0.dts Copy the output to the /boot environnement root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# cp meson-sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0.dtbo /boot/dtb-6.18.15-current-meson64/amlogic/overlay/meson-sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0.dtbo modify the boot file /boot/armbianEnv.txt to setup the overlay root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 console=both overlay_prefix=meson fdtfile=amlogic/meson-sm1-bananapi-m5.dtb rootdev=UUID=d5516764-cadb-4a54-9453-6c500b56656c rootfstype=btrfs overlays=sm1-bananapi-m5-i2c0 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# then a bad surprise the utility hwclock was not in the distro get the package util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb and install it root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/801453777/util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb --2026-04-03 10:46:26-- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/801453777/util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)... 2620:2d:4000:1009::3b8, 2620:2d:4000:1009::13e, 185.125.189.229, ... Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)|2620:2d:4000:1009::3b8|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 122602 (120K) [application/x-debian-package] Saving to: ‘util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb’ util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb 100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 119.73K --.-KB/s in 0.05s 2026-04-03 10:46:26 (2.42 MB/s) - ‘util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb’ saved [122602/122602] root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# dpkg -i util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb Selecting previously unselected package util-linux-extra. (Reading database ... 25343 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack util-linux-extra_2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3_arm64.deb ... Unpacking util-linux-extra (2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3) ... Setting up util-linux-extra (2.39.3-9ubuntu6.3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... root@bananapim5:/home/gerard# you can reboot the module for rtc is download automaticly no need load any module boot and hwclock command to test with the version and build used on my bpi m5 v26.2.1 for Banana Pi M5 running Armbian Linux 6.18.15-current-meson64 Packages: Ubuntu stable (noble) IPv4: (LAN) 192.168.1.243 IPv6: xxxxxxx Performance: Load: 19% Uptime: 1m Memory usage: 7% of 3.67G CPU temp: 41°C Usage of /: 5% of 14G Tips: Flash Armbian from macOS, Windows, and Linux https://tinyurl.com/mryujx5u Commands: Configuration: armbian-config Monitoring : htop Last login: Fri Apr 3 09:54:29 2026 from 192.168.1.101 root@bananapim5:~# hwclock -r -f /dev/rtc1 2026-04-03 11:15:15.211101+02:00 root@bananapim5:~# root@bananapim5:~# Story not finished I try to integrate rtc1 as a fallback to ntp and chrony unfortunatly i was not able to install chrony on this distro (the last one avalaible for m5) so I try apt update and apt upgrade surprise upgrade downgrade from 6.18.15 to 6.18.10 the system but install util-linux-extra and allow chrony installation After that I create the necessary service to boot with rtc1 then start chrony and update system clock with ntp or rtc1 depending of availablility of internet root@bananapim5:/etc/systemd/system# cat sync-* ds3231-rtc.service [Unit] Description=Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback After=chronyd.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/rtc/sync-rtc1.sh [Unit] Description=Run RTC1 sync every hour [Timer] OnBootSec=5min OnUnitActiveSec=5min Unit=sync-rtc1.service [Install] WantedBy=timers.target [Unit] Description=Synchronize system time from DS3231 RTC DefaultDependencies=no Before=sysinit.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/sbin/hwclock -s -f /dev/rtc1 RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=sysinit.target root@bananapim5:/etc/systemd/system# cat /usr/rtc/sync-rtc1.sh #!/bin/bash # sync-rtc1.sh # Synchronisation RTC1 <-> système avec logging # Vérifie si Chrony a des sources NTP actives NTP_OK=$(chronyc tracking | grep 'Reference ID' | grep -v '0.0.0.0') if [ -n "$NTP_OK" ]; then # Chrony OK, mettre RTC1 à jour depuis l’heure système hwclock -w -f /dev/rtc1 logger -t sync-rtc1 "NTP actif : mise à jour RTC1 depuis l'heure système" else # NTP indisponible, remettre l’heure système depuis RTC1 hwclock -s -f /dev/rtc1 logger -t sync-rtc1 "NTP indisponible : mise à jour de l'heure système depuis RTC1" fi root@bananapim5:/etc/systemd/system# end of story. log of the result 2026-04-03T13:24:30.009238+02:00 bananapim5 sync-rtc1: NTP indisponible : mise à jour de l'heure système depuis RTC1 2026-04-03T13:24:30.013803+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:24:30.014705+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Finished sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback. 2026-04-03T13:29:35.005855+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Starting sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback... 2026-04-03T13:29:36.001355+02:00 bananapim5 systemd-resolved[1433]: Clock change detected. Flushing caches. 2026-04-03T13:29:36.010529+02:00 bananapim5 sync-rtc1: NTP indisponible : mise à jour de l'heure système depuis RTC1 2026-04-03T13:29:36.016160+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:29:36.016473+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Finished sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback. 2026-04-03T13:30:01.478054+02:00 bananapim5 CRON[2521]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs) 2026-04-03T13:34:44.331407+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Starting sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback... 2026-04-03T13:34:45.001445+02:00 bananapim5 systemd-resolved[1433]: Clock change detected. Flushing caches. 2026-04-03T13:34:45.010331+02:00 bananapim5 sync-rtc1: NTP indisponible : mise à jour de l'heure système depuis RTC1 2026-04-03T13:34:45.015243+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:34:45.016212+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Finished sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback. 2026-04-03T13:36:55.097288+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[1725]: chronyd exiting 2026-04-03T13:36:55.098535+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Stopping chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server... 2026-04-03T13:36:55.106444+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: chrony.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:36:55.107444+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Stopped chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server. 2026-04-03T13:36:55.130493+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Starting chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server... 2026-04-03T13:36:55.296466+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: chronyd version 4.5 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +NTS +SECHASH +IPV6 -DEBUG) 2026-04-03T13:36:55.297080+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Loaded 0 symmetric keys 2026-04-03T13:36:55.298281+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Frequency -22.284 +/- 4.769 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift 2026-04-03T13:36:55.298541+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Using right/UTC timezone to obtain leap second data 2026-04-03T13:36:55.302159+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Loaded seccomp filter (level 1) 2026-04-03T13:36:55.308879+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Started chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server. 2026-04-03T13:37:00.601703+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Selected source 2620:2d:4000:1::41 (ntp.ubuntu.com) 2026-04-03T13:37:00.602025+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: System clock TAI offset set to 37 seconds 2026-04-03T13:37:01.826456+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Selected source 2001:41d0:2:c837::123 (2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org) 2026-04-03T13:40:11.651555+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Starting sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback... 2026-04-03T13:40:12.008233+02:00 bananapim5 sync-rtc1: NTP actif : mise à jour RTC1 depuis l'heure système 2026-04-03T13:40:12.011630+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:40:12.012299+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Finished sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback. 2026-04-03T13:45:01.529270+02:00 bananapim5 CRON[2593]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs) 2026-04-03T13:45:12.987841+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Starting sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback... 2026-04-03T13:45:14.008414+02:00 bananapim5 sync-rtc1: NTP actif : mise à jour RTC1 depuis l'heure système 2026-04-03T13:45:14.012561+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Deactivated successfully. 2026-04-03T13:45:14.012904+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: Finished sync-rtc1.service - Synchronize RTC1 with system or NTP fallback. 2026-04-03T13:45:14.013548+02:00 bananapim5 systemd[1]: sync-rtc1.service: Consumed 1.028s CPU time. 2026-04-03T13:45:37.968500+02:00 bananapim5 chronyd[2559]: Selected source 2620:2d:4000:1::40 (ntp.ubuntu.com) root@bananapim5:/etc/systemd/system#

That is supposed to be using network manager, again, see documentation Your question was about networking. How to configure your raid is a completely different question and has nothing to do with network. Since both systemd-networkd AND network manager (and you also mention dnsmasq) is enabled, you have most likely done changes to the system way outside of what you should. If you claim the image you downloaded CAME with all that installed and enabled by default, I would suggest you provide proof of that and then report back as a bug. As for your general network setup, I gave you my opinion earlier: Not on every specific device if there is a local dns server available on the network. Then it's normally done on the local dns itself by first checking local configs (like /etc/hosts) and if not available, resolve using online dns servers and then send the response to the device. And the dhcp server is obv configured to point to the local dns server. That way the configs gets propagated via the dhcp lease to all devices on the network.

i will get that information for you.Sorry i did not give it sooner Box: H96 model x3 cpu-s905x3 rom 64gb the config file is kernel /Image initrd /uInitrd fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-sm1-h96-max.dtb append root=UUID=54072e2a-0ddf-4b60-930c-f13cc5fc51b1 rootflags=data=writeback console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 rw no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles I will post a neofetch of the usb flash that armibian works from on the same box strange enough when i take the sd card out the port on the box and place it in a usb card reader then boot armbian boots up ok and works(except the wifi) WHen i place the sd card back into the slot i get no errors but get stuck on initram