I've reproduced this bug on a completely fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.10
Steps: 1) Install these packages: sudo apt install network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome 2) Create an openVPN or cisco-vpnc VPN-Connection and input the remote dns servers of the network you are connecting to here: http://neartalk.com/ss/2016-10-16_001_601x625.png 3) Connect to the VPN 4) Try to ping a computer (on the remote network) by its name: ping computer-name (it won't work) 5) Try to find the Additional DNS server you've configured in the VPN: nmcli dev show | grep DNS (you won't find them) In Ubuntu 16.04, you could easily ping by computer-name to computers in remote networks and nmcli would also show additional DNS servers specified in the VPN configuration. In 16.10, this is broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633874 Title: VPN - "Additional DNS servers" Settings are being Ignored To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager-applet/+bug/1633874/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs