[avahi] avahi & OpenVPN

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 07.01.06 03:55, Tiziano Mueller (avahi at dev-zero.ch) wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> I have a question concerning avahi & OpenVPN (or VPN in general). In the 
> company I work, we use openvpn for remote connection. The OpenVPN client 
> can update the dns-servers/search-domain only on win32. On linux a 
> script is needed, which adds this information to resolv.conf.
> Yesterday I discovered avahi and wondered if it would be possible that 
> the openvpn-script could just use DBUS to send avahi a message to "scan" 
> the new network or add the company's dns server as new service.
> I personally don't like the idea of having a vpn-client which changes 
> system configuration files.

I am sorry. I don't understand why you want to use avahi to
configure your DNS servers?

On Linux unicast DNS servers are always configured in /etc/resolv.conf, Avahi
is no workaround for that.

You might want to use a system like Debian's "resolvconf" package to
manage /etc/resolv.conf if you don't like programs messing directly
with that file.

Lennart

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