Comment 5 for bug 1688018

I don't know why bugs about "DNS on VPN" were being marked as duplicates of suspend/resume issues in dnsmasq. It's /related/, but definitely not the same thing at all. I can only apologize that this wasn't handled correctly, and try to fix things.

One thing to keep in mind however, is that not all premises on this bug report are correct: what DNS server to use is directly dependent on the settings used in the VPN connection: whether it should use the VPN for everything, or just for the network it provides as routed shipped from the VPN server. Your observations may vary based on what that setting is.

I think we have enough information already to start working on a solution, so I'll mark this bug Triaged/In Progress and assign it to myself. I'm also milestoning it to 17.06; so that it stays on my todo list for this month and June -- but that doesn't mean that it *will* be fixed by then, that will depend on how hard it is to fix and ship the updates where appropriate.

I only have openvpn to work with now, but the actual type of VPN should not matter. If it changes something, *that* would be another bug (and then you should make a separate report). If things work for one VPN plugin, it means NetworkManager is doing what it should.

As soon as there is a proposed fix for this, I'll make it available on a PPA for testing, even before it lands in -proposed, so as to have more certainty that the fix works. I'll comment back here when something is ready.