The behaviour varies because the resolver configuration file gets overwritten 
each time the lease is renewed.   There are two contending parties: the local 
provider and the remote provider; which party wins depends on which lease 
expires earlier (more often).  I agree it is unmanageable; indeed, the resolver 
configuration should be a union of information provided by all sources, not 
just one of them taken on last-wins basis, and there must be an option to deny 
all influence on the resolver configuration from remote connections, or 
preferably connection-wise (it slows down the resolver a lot if it goes through 
the tunnel for all queries).
It would be much more pernicious if the default gateway were replaced in the 
same way; fortunately it is not the case.

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resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90681
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