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authorGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2015-05-23 22:47:27 +0200
committerGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2015-05-24 09:08:38 +0200
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Correct note about DNS randomization in openvpn.8
Commit 4880739c17b502d00a removed DNS randomization, but this fact never made it into the man page. Trac #411 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Message-Id: <1432414047-28674-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9726
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index 56e7e80..3940cdf 100644
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ not match
If
.B host
is a DNS name which resolves to multiple IP addresses,
-one will be randomly
-chosen, providing a sort of basic load-balancing and
-failover capability.
+the first address returned by the system getaddrinfo() function
+will be used (no DNS randomization inside OpenVPN 2.3.x, and
+it will not try multiple addresses).
.\"*********************************************************
.TP
.B \-\-remote\-random\-hostname