Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1754671
  3. Comment #94

Comment 94 for bug 1754671

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In , Bgalvani (bgalvani) wrote :

(In reply to David Woodhouse from comment #26)
> Some further notes:
>
> • I can make NetworkManager-openconnect provide both 'search domains' and
> 'split dns domain' in separate config items. Right now we mache them all
> into the search domains because we know NM abuses that field for both,
> but we should fix that too.

You can put them all in the NM_VPN_PLUGIN_IP4_CONFIG_DOMAINS key and prefix routing-only domains with a '~'.

> • We might perhaps take this opportunity to kill the weirdness that we have
> redundant DNS information in *both* IPv4 and IPv6 configs. That was always
> wrong, and a clean break to make it sane might be better than letting it
> persist for ever.

Changing this is a huge pain for users, and developers too (but this probably doesn't matter much). I can't think of a way to achieve a smooth transition from the separate DNS properties into a new common setting.