The state of resolv.conf
Jon Biggar
jon at floorboard.com
Mon Sep 15 15:19:16 UTC 2008
Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> I use a local DNS server that forwards queries (both forward and reverse
> lookups for the network I'm connecting to) down the tunnel. So
> /etc/resolv.conf always contains just localhost as the nameserver.
Does that handle the case well where you've got a laptop and you move
from one wireless network to another? How would you get it to recognize
the changing DNS servers in that case?
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Jon Biggar
jon at biggar.org
jon at floorboard.com
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