Internet connection and DNS routing are broken from WSL2 instances, when some VPNs are active. The workaround breaks down into two problems:
This problem is tracked in multiple microsoft/WSL issues including, but not limited to:
| # allow `mount` cmd without password | |
| echo "$USER ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/mount" | (sudo su -c 'EDITOR="tee -a" visudo') | |
| # add the mount directive to `fstab` | |
| sudo mkdir -p /c | |
| sudo sh -c "echo '/mnt/c /c none bind' >> /etc/fstab" | |
| # update to `.bashrc` to auto mount at login | |
| echo "sudo mount -a" >> ~/.bashrc | |
| # now reload it | |
| source ~/.bashrc |
| # Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279 | |
| for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ai %ar by %an" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r |