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 > "<random-chars>.foo.bar.gov". > > How is that supposed to work? If my vpn server is called > "foo.bar.gov", how can the client expect to resolve > "<random-chars>.foo.bar.gov" at all?
You need a wildcard record
*.foo.bar.gov IN A 1.2.3.4
I'm not totally sure I've ever understood that feature. I did *repair*
it once, and made sure the documentation and code match, but I forgot the
reasoning why this is a good idea.
It was something about DNS caching, I think...
gert
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