Re: [Openvpn-users] Clarification of "remote-random-hostname"

2021-01-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:07:28PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > From the man page: > > --remote-random-hostname > > Prepend a random string (6 bytes, 12 hex characters) to hostname to > prevent DNS caching. For example, "foo.bar.gov" would be modified to > ".foo.bar.gov". > > How is tha

Re: [Openvpn-users] Clarification of "remote-random-hostname"

2021-01-11 Thread Davide Brini
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:07:28 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > From the man page: > > --remote-random-hostname > > Prepend a random string (6 bytes, 12 hex characters) to hostname to > prevent DNS caching. For example, "foo.bar.gov" would be modified to > ".foo.bar.gov". > > How is that supposed t

[Openvpn-users] Clarification of "remote-random-hostname"

2021-01-11 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
From the man page: --remote-random-hostname Prepend a random string (6 bytes, 12 hex characters) to hostname to prevent DNS caching. For example, "foo.bar.gov" would be modified to ".foo.bar.gov". How is that supposed to work? If my vpn server is called "foo.bar.gov", how can the client expect t