Re: Remote DNS server
David Sommerseth <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.openvpn.user |
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On 06/12/2023 11:09, Jason Long via Openvpn-users wrote: > Hello, > Suppose the OpenVPN server is located in another country, but the DNS server is inside the company. What options should be included in the server and client configuration file? > > Thank you. For OpenVPN 2.6 and newer, the new --dns option is preferred. For OpenVPN 2.5 and older, use --dhcp-option. If you operate in a mixed environment with clients running both 2.5 and 2.6, you can push both --dns and --dhcp-option from the server to clients (via --push). And once all your client is updated to 2.6, remove the --dhcp-option. The reason for preferring --dns is that it should have a consistent behavior across platforms. The --dhcp-option has several corner cases where it does slightly different things depending on if you're on Windows, macOS or Linux. *BSD and some Linux setups will not do the DNS setup out-of-the-box and will require additional script hooks to be enabled (the exception is when starting VPN sessions via NetworkManager). Hosts running OpenVPN 3 Linux will get DNS setup out-of-the-box, and that should support the --dns option as well. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users