[OM Cooker] resolvconf is coming back via openresolv

Robert Xu robxu9 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 03:09:57 EST 2016


Then you are completely welcome to fix NetworkManager, wicd, and all the
VPN software.

Like I said, it's not a working chain right now - and openresolv isn't
ancient (it's actually actively maintained and used with systemd-resolved
in alt linux).
On 8 Mar 2016 02:56, "Tomasz Gajc" <tpgxyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> No.
>
> problem lies in VPN software or any other software that can't handle
> systemd.network interface available for more than 2 years.
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html
>
>
> I think it's better to fix openvpn or anyother vpn software which is used
> rather than to break working chain with ancient software.
>
> 2016-03-08 8:26 GMT+01:00 Robert Xu <robxu9 at gmail.com>:
>
>> The problem is that systemd-resolved is taking exclusive control of
>> DNS without the ability to take input from other sources like
>> NetworkManager or VPN software. That means that if systemd-resolved
>> gets a different DNS than what's needed, requests won't be routed
>> correctly. For example (something I ran into recently),
>> systemd-resolved takes the ethernet address of my computer, but then
>> doesn't catch the VPN that my computer connects to via NetworkManager.
>> DNS leaks and I can't access internal resources to the VPN because
>> they're all routing outside the VPN.
>>
>> Also, openresolv isn't ancient (see
>> http://roy.marples.name/projects/openresolv/home).
>>
>> On 8 March 2016 at 02:11, Tomasz Gajc <tpgxyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What? No!
>> >
>> > Dude what is the problem to resurrect some ancient software?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > TPG
>> >
>> > 8 mar 2016 03:41 "Robert Xu" <robxu9 at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> >>
>> >> For Lx3
>> >>
>> >> On 7 Mar 2016 21:28, "Alexander Khryukin" <nobodydead at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> For 2014.2 release?
>> >>>
>> >>> 8 марта 2016 г. 4:07 пользователь "Robert Xu" <robxu9 at gmail.com>
>> написал:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> hi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I brought up the fact that systemd-resolved was overwriting DNS
>> >>>> settings in /etc/resolv.conf and not taking NetworkManager or any
>> >>>> other scripts into consideration a while back. I have changes pending
>> >>>> that I'll push soon.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I know nobody wanted to deal with resolvconf, so I'm trying out
>> >>>> openresolv, which is a BSD-licensed implementation. And I'm ripping
>> >>>> out systemd's exclusive control of /etc/resolv.conf - I'd like my VPN
>> >>>> back, please!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> That should also fix NetworkManager's DNS settings not being
>> >>>> respected. I'll test it out throughly on my computer before pushing
>> so
>> >>>> that I don't destroy everyone else's setup...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> just a heads up,
>> >>>> robert
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> cheers, Robert :: rxu.io
>> >>>>
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>> cheers, Robert :: rxu.io
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