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On Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:41:10 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I use Surfshark and every once in a while, my VPN loses its connection. |
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> I sent the info from messages to Surfshark but the info they sent back |
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> on how to set the nameserver info doesn't really work with Gentoo. I |
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> suspect they are used to systemd stuff. Anyway, I tried to follow in a |
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> more Gentoo way but it still didn't work. Then I googled, searched the |
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> Gentoo wiki and tried some of those things, still refuses to use the |
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> manually entered nameserver. I've tried resolv.conf, resolvconf.conf |
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> and resolv.conf-tun0.sv. I installed openresolv to see if that would |
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> help. Nope. |
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AFAIR, you're meant to pull down from the openvpn server the DNS resolvers |
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you're meant to use with their service, unless you have your own reasons for |
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wanting to override these and set up your own DNS resolvers. Have you looked |
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in /etc/openvpn/ for a suitable setting in the configuration file? I'm sure |
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it will be set to automatically pull down the DNS resolvers and the Up script |
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will set these up for your system when you start openvpn. |
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> This is what I got from Surfshark: |
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> > I would recommend changing the DNS addresses on your Linux device. You |
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> > can simply do that by following the steps below. |
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> > First, you need to open the terminal with the CTRL + ALT + T |
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> > combination and type in the following commands: |
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> > sudo rm -r /etc/resolv.conf |
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> > sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf |
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Normally, you would not have to do this manually. The Up script will enter |
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the resolver IP addresses in your resolv.conf. If it doesn't, then check your |
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configuration and your openvpn script. |
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