Re: [Openvpn-users] Adding DNS Servers in Mac OS X 10.4

[Tim Bruijnzeels <tim.bruijnzeels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Ralf Ebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with Panther, DNS servers could be added by adding entries to  
> resolv.conf, and these changes were accepted system wide. With Tiger,  
> this doesn't seem to work anymore... (at least for applications using  
> lookupd). Did anybody already figured out a way to add/remove DNS  
> servers dynamically for using DNS servers located in VPN network for  
> the time the VPN is active?
I am using OSX 10.3; but here you need to restart lookupd as well, just 
changing /var/run/resolv.conf does not work system wide, though it does 
seem to work for command line tools like 'host'. If you read the lookupd 
man page it turns out the recommended way to restart it is by just 
sending a HUP signal: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`. This works 
fine for me.

However... this may not be true for 10.4. Plus I remember a post in this 
mailing list where somebody pointed at the proper command line tool to 
use when one wants to update the local dns config. Sorry, forgot which 
one it was but it should be in the archives somewhere. Hope this helps 
though.

Cheers,
Tim

> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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