Hi,
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:05:19PM +0000, lejeczek via Openvpn-users wrote:
> > On Linux, OpenVPN does not modify the DNS servers itself (unlike Windows).
> >
> > There's two ways to make it happen
> >
> > - use Network Manager to run OpenVPN - it will parse the server reply,
> > and set up DNS accordingly
> >
> > - add an "up $script" to your client config to do the DNS setup -
> > we ship a sample script ("pull-resolv-conf") to do that, but I'm
> > not sure if Fedora integrates that, or uses something else - ask
> > rpm what is in the openvpn package.
> >
> > gert
> Thanks for that.
> I've never thought of NM as better alternative than opvn
> itself, it seems to work
Well, it's not "a better alternative to openvpn", it's "a wrapper
around openvpn that understands Linux DNS config" - which is highly
distribution specific, so OpenVPN does not attempt to do it itself.
> however I wonder if NM (at least in
> Fedora) has a problem with re-uping connection after system
> resumed from sleep.
Well, that is most easily tested, no? :-)
(As far as I understand, NM is "sleep aware", and will stop the OpenVPN
session before sleep and resume afterwards - which brings certain kinds
of problems, but fixes other kinds)
gert
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