Correct note about DNS randomization in openvpn.8

Commit 4880739c17b502d00a removed DNS randomization, but this fact
never 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: <1432414047-28674-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9726

diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index 56e7e80bc249d509f1793c327ac0b8ba4726f672..3940cdf6ad3073b80ecc7a5128a51bccf5bf0672 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ 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.
+the first address returned by the system getaddrinfo() function
+will be used (no DNS randomization inside OpenVPN 2.3.x, and
+it will not try multiple addresses).
 .\"*********************************************************
 .TP
 .B \-\-remote\-random\-hostname