Bug 446398

Summary: Add support for OpenVPN's "remote-random-hostname" feature
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Nogweii <me+kdebugs>
Component: kcm_networkmanagementAssignee: Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: jgrulich, kdedev, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Nogweii 2021-12-02 23:23:58 UTC
SUMMARY
AWS's managed VPN offering, "AWS Client VPN" uses this feature. I can't connect using the graphical UI for NetworkManager as it doesn't pass the appropriate flag along.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
NetworkManager Version: 1.32.12
NetworkManager-openvpn Version: 1.8.16

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

From OpenVPN's documentation:
--remote-random-hostname
    Prepend a random string (6 bytes, 12 hex characters) to hostname to prevent DNS caching. For example, "foo.bar.gov" would be modified to "<random-chars>.foo.bar.gov".

PR for GNOME, not sure if this is particularly useful: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-openvpn/-/merge_requests/23
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-02-12 19:53:32 UTC
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