Commit 4880739c17b502d00a removed DNS randomization, but this fact never made it into the man page.
Trac #411 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> --- doc/openvpn.8 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 56e7e80..f6e910c 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ not match If .B host is a DNS name which resolves to multiple IP addresses, -one will be randomly -chosen, providing a sort of basic load-balancing and -failover capability. +the first address returned by the system getaddrinfo() function +will be used (no DNS randomization inside OpenVPN 2.3.x, and +it will not try multiple addresses). .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-remote\-random\-hostname -- 2.3.6
