WSL

Restart

Note, will automatically restart. Takes a few minutes to be up again for Visual Studio Code.

Using Powershell as Administrator:

powershell.exe Restart-Service LxssManager

Note, have to shutdown and reload VS folder.

Using Console:

wsl --shutdown

wsl --status

If running:

wsl --list --running

To restart manually:

• https://snippets.khromov.se/how-to-restart-wsl2-windows-subsystem-linux-on-windows-10/

Notes:

• https://blog.simonpeterdebbarma.com/2020-04-memory-and-wsl/ - Memory consumption

Flush DNS Cache

Reference info - https://bard.google.com/chat/4e36149d64fc9119

The file is here /etc/resolv.conf:

# [network]
# generateResolvConf = false
nameserver 172.26.176.1

Then restart WSL wsl --shutdown using PowerShell console as Admin.

Local Testing

Using localhost.

Refer to this article - stackoverflow

lvh.me

This domain can be used for local testing subdomains, without having to update the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

Reference article - https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/ngrok-lvhme-nipio-a-trilogy-for-local-development-and-testing

• Another alternative is - https://readme.localtest.me/

Some commands

• nslookup lvh.me
• host lvh.me