This might be my a-ha moment from comment # 64 "after upgrading to 16.10, yes it is even worse, the first VPN connection works as it should, but after disconnect/connect, DNS from VPN isn't propagated"
I came to this bug because suddenly my VPN connection wasn't working when I *swear* it was yesterday. I didn't have (/don't remember having!) any problems under 16.04, obviously the 16.10 update was recent. I'm about to reboot - if it comes right after that, then I'll be able to confirm this diagnosis. That said, interesting discussion on http://askubuntu.com/questions/838948/16-10-fail-to-resolve-dns - is dnsmasq out of the equation now? That would suggest problems with upgrading from 16.04 to 16.10 not reconfiguring (and maybe the commenting-out of dns=dnsmasq is the missing sort of step). Also agree with Mathieu in comment # 50 that this bug report is way past its use-by date. It was started for 13.04 and now we're discussing the 16.04 to 16.10 upgrade? Similar symptoms, but highly unlikely that the same remedy would work across all these versions. -- 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/1211110 Title: network manager openvpn dns push data not updating system DNS addresses Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in openvpn package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: [Triage Notes] This bug can no longer make progress. Please see comment 50 for details and further instructions. [Original 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/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
