I started using my employer's OpenVPN today and encountered name resolution problems. From my research, this here bug appears to be plaguing me, as well (I'm on 12.10). Commenting the line dns=dnsmasq in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf does fix the problem. However, _all_ DNS is routed out the VPN in this case. I rather like the idea of splitting the DNS responsibilities.
I see there's still the unresolved question of whether re-enabling --strict-order will suffice as a workaround, since 12.10 relies on DBus to populate the nameservers. Is there any extra information on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003842 Title: dnsmasq sometimes fails to resolve private names in networks with non- equivalent nameservers Status in “dnsmasq” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “dnsmasq” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise: Triaged Status in “dnsmasq” package in Debian: New Bug description: A number of reports already filed against network-manager seem to reflect this problem, but to make things very clear I am opening a new report. Where appropriate I will mark other reports as duplicates of this one. Consider a pre-Precise system with the following /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 8.8.8.8 The first address is the address of a nameserver on the LAN that can resolve both private and public domain names. The second address is the address of a nameserver on the Internet that can resolve only public names. This setup works fine because the GNU resolver always tries the first- listed address first. Now the administrator upgrades to Precise and instead of writing the above to resolv.conf, NetworkManager writes server=192.168.0.1 server=8.8.8.8 to /var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf and "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to resolv.conf. Resolution of private domain names is now broken because dnsmasq treats the two upstream nameservers as equals and uses the faster one, which could be 8.8.8.8. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1003842/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
