[Bug 1633874] Re: VPN - "Additional DNS servers" Settings are being Ignored

[Lonnie Lee Best]

I've reproduced this bug on a completely fresh installation of Ubuntu
16.10

Steps:

1) Install these packages:
sudo apt install network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome

2) Create an openVPN or cisco-vpnc VPN-Connection and input the remote
dns servers of the network you are connecting to here:
http://neartalk.com/ss/2016-10-16_001_601x625.png

3) Connect to the VPN

4) Try to ping a computer (on the remote network) by its name:
ping computer-name

(it won't work)

5) Try to find the Additional DNS server you've configured in the VPN:
nmcli dev show | grep DNS

(you won't find them)

In Ubuntu 16.04, you could easily ping by computer-name to computers in
remote networks and nmcli would also show additional DNS servers
specified in the VPN configuration. In 16.10, this is broken.

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  VPN - "Additional DNS servers" Settings are being Ignored

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