[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1684854] Re: The default behaviour for search domains changed from 16.10 to 17.04

I struggled with this long enough and took some notes about a workaround here: https://thealarmclocksixam.com/2017/08/08/dns-configuration-with- vpns-and-ubuntu-17-04-working-again/ I hope that this can help someone else as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1169437] Re: network-manager does not configure local resolver or dnsmasq to use the nameserver addresses received from the VPN server

I confirm that the bug is still present in Ubuntu 16.10 with OpenVPN 2.3.11. If an additional DNS server is specified in the VPN IPv4 settings of NetworkManager, the name resolution is completely lost, unless the workaround of not-using dnsmasq is used (see http://askubuntu.com/questions/320921/ha