Thanks to all of you for your replies. The consensus seems to be that the documentation is correct, and that if OpenVPN behaves differently then that is a bug.
I'll try to get the user's configs/logs, or try to generate some test cases that show this myself (and include a 2.1... test case to see if this behavior was introduced in 2.2) and post them on this thread. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:11 AM, David Sommerseth < openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote: > On 22/10/12 10:48, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 06:40:08PM -0400, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote: > >> A Tunnelblick user has reported odd behavior with name resolution > failures. > >> I can't tell if it is a bug in OpenVPN, a bug in the documentation, or > >> something else. The behavior is apparently the same in OpenVPN 2.2.1 and > >> 2.3alpha1. > > [..] > >> Any ideas if this is a program bug, a documentation bug, or something > else, > >> for example, a problem that only occurs on OS X? > > > > "One of those" :-) - I don't know yet, and haven't looked into the code > yet > > (will do ASAP). > > > > The resolver code has been changed for 2.2 (getting rid of the old > > randomization stuff), so it might be a bug introduced there, or a much > > older bug that nobody ever noticed. > > > > Do you have an OpenVPN log that shows this behaviour? Might help in > > digging down to it... > > A client config file would help in addition. I'm also wondering if > connection profiles are used ... that is, more --remote options or > <connection> blocks. > > Otherwise, I would not be surprised if there are some corner case here > appearing, which surfaced more easily when the resolving code was > re-written (as Gert mentioned). > > This resolver_retry_second option is only used in socket.c AFAICT, which > most of us try to avoid looking too hard on, to avoid eye cancer and/or > loosing our sanity ;-) But there's work in progress on cleaning up that > one, unfortunately that will take some time. But we'll try to hunt down > this which looks like an openvpn bug to me. > > > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth > >
