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
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