Matthew Gyurgyik

The OpenVPN server can pass DNS servers and a domain name to the client. This gives the benefit of using the remote dns servers for local hostname lookups.

Finding a good script that worked to do this provide difficult…

In server.conf add:

push "dhcp-option DOMAIN ion.lan"
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.25.11.2"

Then save this script on the client in same location as the client config

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    up)
	    mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.bak

		echo "# Generated by OpenVPN Client UP Script" > /etc/resolv.conf
		for opt in ${!foreign_option_*};
		do
	        echo ${!opt} | sed -e 's/dhcp-option DOMAIN/domain/g' -e 's/dhcp-option DNS/nameserver/g' >> /etc/resolv.conf
        done
        ;;
    down)
        mv /etc/resolv.conf.bak /etc/resolv.conf
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Pass either UP or DOWN"
        ;;
esac

In the client.conf add

script-security 2

up "./vpn_dns_update.sh up"
down "./vpn_dns_update.sh down"

Now connect and check /etc/resolv.conf to see if the VPN nameserver and domain is listed.