Re: [Openvpn-users] remote-random should be shuffle always

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, James Yonan wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Claas Hilbrecht wrote:
>
> > Today I start running OpenVPN 2.0beta18 and tried the --remote-random
> > option. I added these lines to my openvpn config file:
> >
> > remote-random
> > remote hosta.tld
> > remote hostb.tld
> > remote hostc.tld
> >
> > Note that hostb and hostb gives DNS errors (host not found). Now I start
> > openvpn. OpenVPN selects this time hostb and tries forever to resolve this
> > nonexisting address. It would be really nice if a resolve that fails cause
> > openvpn to redo the random "sort" of the host list and maybe pick another
> > host.
>
> I agree.  In fact that's the way it's supposed to work.  You should be
> able to say --resolv-retry 30 and it will try resolving one host for 30
> seconds then move on to the next host in the shuffled list.

Hmm, how will this work...?

When you only specify one remote host I usually use --resolv-retry 
infinite to make OpenVPN stay alive for ever.

If I would specify multiple hosts, I'd like to use --resolv-retry to 
specify the time each host is tried, but after all hosts are tried, it 
should start over on the first host again. Is this currently possible?

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