Unfortunately not much traction here, and this appears to annoy people across distros.
In the meantime, an ugly hack is to manually add all internal domains to the NetworkManager VPN config file's dns-search= parameter: dns-search=domain1.lan;domain2.lan;domain3.lan;example.com; This causes NetworkManager to split DNS all lookups for these domains to the VPN DNS server, but with the added overhead of searching through all domains for non-existing hostname queries (make sure the primary internal domains are mentioned first). Also, for a multi-city setup like ours, I need to add A LOT of domains to get a functional DNS while on VPN - Including in-addr.arpa specifications for all IP subnets. So there's a way to sweeten the deal - but this is by no means anything other than a hack. -- 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/1629611 Title: dns server priority broken Status in NetworkManager-OpenVPN: New Status in network-manager-vpnc: New Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: network-manager: 1.2.4-0ubuntu1 Yakkety appears to have switched back from resolved to dnsmasq, but it seems server priority/order is broken. Example: In split DNS setups, connecting to VPN will not cause us to query the DNS provided by the VPN first (or only), which should be the proper way to resolve names in that case. Say server.example.com in the public DNS resolves to a.a.a.a and in the private DNS resolves to b.b.b.b. Stuff would work from my normal internet-connection, but connection to VPN would cause stuff to misbehave. I expect to hit the b.b.b.b address but since my normal LAN DNS is being used first, I'm really hitting a.a.a.a. Please let me know how to proceed - Hopefully this can be fixed in time for release. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/1629611/+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
