On 03/01/2010 08:12:03 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> If someone could give at least some vaguely plausible scenario,
> >> that'd help.
> > Maybe there's more than one tunnel and there's some stupid
> > load balancing going on using a hosts file? (Along with
> > deleting all non-vpn routes.)
>
> [ Setting aside the fact that using OpenVPN's broken handling of
> multi-FQDN to implement this is far from the only option. ]
>
> I'm not even sure *how* this could work: how would you ensure that
> the
> different tunnels happen to (together) route all IPs rather than all
> chosing the same IP (for example)?
I'm just waving my hands here; I'm not thinking closely about
the details and don't want to. It sounded plausible when
it popped into my head so I sent a braindump. I was thinking
along the lines of "well if you might want to randomize
remote endpoint choice using FQDNs resolved from a hosts file..."
Sorry if this has been more confusing than helpful.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
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