On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:21:33PM -0500, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
> I've been working with the vpnc port, and I noticed something strange. I have
> to run a dhcp client first to connect to my network, and then I start vpnc.
> This all works fine until dhcp repools for a new IP. Somehow, it overwrites
> the resolv.conf file so that my routes do not work. Tunnels already
> established continue to work for some time, but eventually they go out too.
>
> Does anyone know what is wrong here? It does not appear that my vpnc client
> is
> disconnecting me, or that the server is disconnecting me, so I can't see any
> other reason than dhclient for the whole thing to mess up.
>
> Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Is there a way to make sure that
> dhclient does not overwrite my vpnc defined resolv.conf file? :-/
Wouldn't playing tricks [1] with /etc/resolv.conf.tail work?
Joachim
[1] Copying the 'nameserver' lines from /etc/resolv.conf to
/etc/resolv.conf.tail after vpnc has started, or somesuch.
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