Hello All, I was thinking on how to solve this problem because starts to get annoying. I have my linux machine connecting through openvpn with a script.
After connecting my script replaces the dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf with OpenDNS so all the DNS requests will be forwarded through the VPN tunnel. The only problem is that if the VPN tunnel dies and it tries to re-resolve the address it can't because those DNS requests will be sent through the tunnel as well. Is there a solution for this? I know that there are multiple entries possible in /etc/resolv.conf so for example I could put: nameserver <opendns> nameserver <localdns> in there expecting that the secondary DNS will only be used if the name resolution fails on the first one but my experience is that when the first fails, linux just don't switch over to the second one and my concern is that if I insist on having all the DNS requests go through the tunnel then even if the first NS works there can be some requests sent to the second one. I think that would be good if it would be possible to tell openvpn that try to resolve the vpn server's domain through given local nameserver (no matter what) or through 8.8.8.8. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
