Comment 115 for bug 1754671

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In , dwmw2 (dwmw2) wrote :

FWIW the original situation appears to be fairly broken regardless of the security situation. I've lost count of the number of times in my recent travels that the DNS servers of the airport/hotel/etc. in which I find myself are *not* directly on the local subnet. And thus aren't accessible as soon as I join the VPN.

If that situation is going to be allowed to persist in any form (especially if it's the default and we have to take special action to give the VPN nameservers top priority), then we should fix that by explicitly adding routes to them, as I've been having to do manually:

 $ ip route
default dev vpn0 proto static scope link metric 50
default via 10.246.8.1 dev wlp2s0 proto static metric 600
8.8.4.4 via 10.246.8.1 dev wlp2s0
8.8.8.8 via 10.246.8.1 dev wlp2s0