Ubuntu
network-manager-openvpn package

  1. Bug #1586570
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1586570

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grheard (grheard) wrote :

Same problem here. I have had this problem since installing Ubuntu 16.04. This did not happen with Ubuntu 14.04.

Nov 22 09:35:58 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: [] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Nov 22 09:35:58 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting
Nov 22 09:36:00 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Nov 22 09:36:00 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: vpn.xxxx.org: Temporary failure in name resolution
Nov 22 09:36:05 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: message repeated 2 times: [ RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: vpn.xxxx.org: Temporary failure in name resolution]
Nov 22 09:36:10 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: vpn.xxxx.org: Temporary failure in name resolution
Nov 22 09:37:05 GSOLT-3G2DTY1 nm-openvpn[6553]: message repeated 11 times: [ RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: vpn.xxxx.org: Temporary failure in name resolution]

This continues until the VPN is turned off and then back on in the Network Manager applet.