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| author | Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> | 2015-05-24 09:56:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> | 2015-05-24 13:18:02 +0200 |
| commit | 0322510375b5c54f63f5302b9088972d58b32b76 (patch) | |
| tree | 841805579a868541b55f9048df993ad72e95cc1c /doc/openvpn.8 | |
| parent | 025d611fc68aa0c651c391bd6178d062246f36f0 (diff) | |
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Correct note about DNS randomization in openvpn.8
Commit 4880739c17b502d00a removed DNS randomization, and the dual-stack
patches for 2.4 completely changed the getaddrinfo() result handling again,
but neither fact ever 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: <1432454172-1318-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9730
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/openvpn.8')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 67e6ddd..07219c3 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -268,9 +268,11 @@ 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. +OpenVPN will try them in the order that the system getaddrinfo() +presents them, so priorization and DNS randomization is done +by the system library. Unless an IP version is forced by the +protocol specification (4/6 suffix), OpenVPN will try both IPv4 +and IPv6 addresses, in the order getaddrinfo() returns them. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-remote\-random\-hostname |