[arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes

Sébastien Luttringer seblu at seblu.net
Fri Dec 2 02:09:05 UTC 2016


On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 16:36 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Tue, 2016/11/29 15:26:
> > Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Sun, 2016/11/27 13:20:
> > > Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> on Sun, 2016/11/27 03:55:  
> > > > On Sat, 2016-11-26 at 13:38 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote:    
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any opinion about this change? Who can post news about this on the
> > > > > website?      
> > > > 
> > > > The switch from Type=forking to simple will break units which rely on
> > > > proper ordering of subnets added by that tunnel. That look as a
> > > > regression to me.    
> > > 
> > > Can you give more detail on that?
> > > 
> > > For me route-up scripts broke... With Type=simple it is no longer allow
> > > to
> > > send dnsmasq a SIGHUP to flush its cache.  
> > 
> > Apparently the units do not have CAP_KILL, so my script failed sending
> > SIGHUP to dnsmasq. Probably this is just find...
> > I solved this by sending ClearCache command to dnsmasq via dbus.
> > 
> > So still interested in details of your issue...
> 
> And bonus question... Does this fix your issue?
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/35521176/

Yes. Thanks Christian!

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