The state of resolv.conf

[Paul Howarth]

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.

Paul.