Michael wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:41:10 GMT Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Surfshark and every once in a while, my VPN loses its connection.
>> I sent the info from messages to Surfshark but the info they sent back
>> on how to set the nameserver info doesn't really work with Gentoo. I
>> suspect they are used to systemd stuff. Anyway, I tried to follow in a
>> more Gentoo way but it still didn't work. Then I googled, searched the
>> Gentoo wiki and tried some of those things, still refuses to use the
>> manually entered nameserver. I've tried resolv.conf, resolvconf.conf
>> and resolv.conf-tun0.sv. I installed openresolv to see if that would
>> help. Nope.
> AFAIR, you're meant to pull down from the openvpn server the DNS resolvers
> you're meant to use with their service, unless you have your own reasons for
> wanting to override these and set up your own DNS resolvers. Have you looked
> in /etc/openvpn/ for a suitable setting in the configuration file? I'm sure
> it will be set to automatically pull down the DNS resolvers and the Up script
> will set these up for your system when you start openvpn.
>
This started because I changed to doing OS updates every other weekend.
That means two weeks of login, two weeks of the VPN being active etc
etc. When doing that, the VPN would lose connection after a good
while. Sometimes it would go the whole two weeks with no problems but
on occasion it would lose connection. I wrote a email to make them
aware to see if this is expected behavior, if I had bad settings or
something was wrong on their end. That's when I got the info in the
original post, to change DNS servers. I'm not sure what that has to do
with anything but . . .
You know how awful I am with scripts. Still, I read through the up
script and even to me, it looks like it is set up to get DNS servers
during the connection setup. This is the part I see.
elif [ "${opt}" != "${opt#dhcp-option DNS *}" ] ; then
NS="${NS}nameserver ${opt#dhcp-option DNS *}\n"
To me, it seems like it is getting the DNS info and putting it
somewhere. It appears that wherever it puts it, it is the only place it
looks because nothing I change changes where it goes for DNS info. To
be honest, I don't know why it should have to be changed. One would
think that the DNS info they send should work fine otherwise why set it
up that way.
>> This is what I got from Surfshark:
>>> I would recommend changing the DNS addresses on your Linux device. You
>>> can simply do that by following the steps below.
>>>
>>> First, you need to open the terminal with the CTRL + ALT + T
>>> combination and type in the following commands:
>>> sudo rm -r /etc/resolv.conf
>>> sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
> Normally, you would not have to do this manually. The Up script will enter
> the resolver IP addresses in your resolv.conf. If it doesn't, then check
> your
> configuration and your openvpn script.
>
>
I tried to edit the openvpn.conf file to manually set the nameserver but
it puked on my keyboard and refused to even connect. I think we are
back to the server I connect to requires its info to be used and if it
isn't, it refuses to complete the connection. Everything I try results
in a error and connection refused. It could even be a security setting
that requires this.
Either way, either this can't be changed and the VPN connect or there is
a setting somewhere that we are not aware of. I've googled, asked here
plus looked everywhere I can think of, even some places I couldn't
imagine having anything to do with it, and had no luck finding where it
stores the info or how to change it.
Unless someone comes up with a idea, I'm fresh out. I have no clue what
to do. Hey, it does work almost all the time. It's not the end of the
world.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. Getting close to garden time. :-D
