I have found a work-around for 14.04 LTS. It's not the prettiest one but it works. When I started a vpn connection and then ran ps -efwww | grep vpn I could see that the openvpn is already called with flags "--script-security 2 --up /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper". So the following can be performed.
sudo cp /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper.orig sudo nano /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper --- Add the following 3 lines to the file. --- #!/bin/bash /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf $@ /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper.orig $@ --- End--- sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper Now here is the really ugly part. Since openvpn was not called with the --down flag, you should run the following command every single time the vpn connection is closed. Change the device name according to your connection settings. sudo script_type=down dev=tun0 /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211110 Title: network manager openvpn dns push data not updating system DNS addresses Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in openvpn package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When IPv4 Method is set to Automatic VPN, DNS address recieved from OpenVPN server do not update resolv.conf. This can be achieved when using a standard openvpn config file by adding the lines: script-security 2 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf In Network-manager there seems to be no option to run connection specific scripts and the DNS data from the server is ignored. Ubuntu 13.04 Network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1211110/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
