The state of resolv.conf

Martin Sivak msivak at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 12:18:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:20:37AM +0200, 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 ?

Well, NM could handle it or take a look at the debian way. Their
resolvconf package does exacly what we need.

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