Quoting Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I have a VPN that also gives me incomplete DNS info. The way I fixed
>> this was by writing a wrapper around /usr/bin/nm-vpnc-service-vpnc-helper
>> that adjusts the vpnc environment before passing it back to NM via
>> dbus. In my case I needed to adjust the CISCO_DEF_DOMAIN variable.
>> YMMV.
>
> I was working on this today; the interesting thing is that if the VPN
> hands back bogus DNS information, should NM honor the default domain
> that the VPN sends back, if any, and should it honor the DNS searches,
> if any? I'd guess no to searches, maybe yes to default domain.
>
> The DNS searches and nameservers should probably be "together" in that
> if there are no nameservers specified, NM falls back to the underlying
> device's nameservers and searches.
In my case the problem was with Split DNS. I needed to convince NM
to configure the Split DNS to send two domains to the VPN DNS Servers
and not just the single domain that the VPN returned.
> Dan
-derek
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