From 1f5668671992dced602e89634e1890711877fdc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gert Doering Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 22:47:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Arne Schwabe Message-Id: <1432414047-28674-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9726 --- doc/openvpn.8 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 56e7e80bc..3940cdf6a 100644 --- 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 -- 2.47.2