The state of resolv.conf

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Sep 15 01:37:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote:

> I have an itch. I connect to work using openvpn. Works great, except that openvpn does not modify resolv.conf to add
> work's dns servers (now available through vpn). It does that on Windows though! I cannot expect openvpn or (any other
> application) to simply overwrite /etc/resolv.conf at will, but what is fedora missing to get an elegant solution to
> this problem ?

If you use openvpn through NetworkManager, then I'd say NetworkManager should
handle this for you.

Paul




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