The state of resolv.conf

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 15 11:09:57 UTC 2008


I'm already pushing DNS .. I don't believe it works on Linux clients though!
Take a look at the kind of hacks needed: http://www.phocean.net/?p=12

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/14 Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com>:
> > 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 ?
>
> You should be able to push DHCP options from the OpenVPN server:
>
> http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#dhcp
>
> push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.4"
> push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.5"
>
> The client OS shouldn't matter, it should be picking up the DHCP
> options when the OpenVPN client brings up the interface when it comes
> up.
>
> Brett
>
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