Re: connecting to OpenVPN server: why NetworkManager nm-openvpn gererates curious, pointless random hostnames?

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On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 06:40 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote:
> But in this case the connection specifies the target VPN server
> somehow (I called it gw.mujsrv.org), but the NM OpenVPN client tries
> to connect to 1a9107897c24.gw.mujsrv.org, 3abc1fd99dff.gw.mujsrv.org,
> 85f0005caa82.gw.mujsrv.org, f6046c7831be.gw.mujsrv.org, ... - which,
> of course, isn't DNS resolvable and thus the connection cannot be
> established at all.

For that kind of thing (I'm assuming some kind of load balancing, so
people don't always use the same server), it being resolveable would
have to be an issue that *their* end would have to solve.

By your example, their DNS server for gw.mujsrv.org would either know
what to do with the hashed subdomain, or simply ignore it and return a
random IP for a particular host.  Or, perhaps it works like virtual
webserving:

With webserving, that sort of thing would be all subdomains for that
domain have the same IP, and different virtual webserver respond to
different subdomains.

But looking at this as an outsider, all I can see is that for it work,
all the addresses would have to resolve, and *they'd* have to be the
one managing that.

If I try "dig gw.mujsrv.org" there is no results returned.  Perhaps
they have a fault at the moment, or is that a faked example?

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