Script for updating DNS configuration after openvpn creates a new virtual network interface for forwarding traffic into VPN.

update-resolv-conf.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Parses DHCP options from openvpn to update resolv.conf
# To use set as 'up' and 'down' script in your openvpn *.conf:
# up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
# down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
#
# Used snippets of resolvconf script by Thomas Hood <[email protected]>
# and Chris Hanson
# Licensed under the GNU GPL.  See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
# 07/2013 [email protected] Fixed intet name
# 05/2006 [email protected]
#
# Example envs set from openvpn:
# foreign_option_1='dhcp-option DNS 193.43.27.132'
# foreign_option_2='dhcp-option DNS 193.43.27.133'
# foreign_option_3='dhcp-option DOMAIN be.bnc.ch'
# foreign_option_4='dhcp-option DOMAIN-SEARCH bnc.local'

## You might need to set the path manually here, i.e.
RESOLVCONF=$(which resolvconf)

case $script_type in

up)
  for optionname in ${!foreign_option_*} ; do
    option="${!optionname}"
    echo $option
    part1=$(echo "$option" | cut -d " " -f 1)
    if [ "$part1" == "dhcp-option" ] ; then
      part2=$(echo "$option" | cut -d " " -f 2)
      part3=$(echo "$option" | cut -d " " -f 3)
      if [ "$part2" == "DNS" ] ; then
        IF_DNS_NAMESERVERS="$IF_DNS_NAMESERVERS $part3"
      fi
      if [[ "$part2" == "DOMAIN" || "$part2" == "DOMAIN-SEARCH" ]] ; then
        IF_DNS_SEARCH="$IF_DNS_SEARCH $part3"
      fi
    fi
  done
  R=""
  if [ "$IF_DNS_SEARCH" ]; then
    R="search"
    for DS in $IF_DNS_SEARCH ; do
      R="${R} $DS"
    done
  R="${R}
"
  fi

  for NS in $IF_DNS_NAMESERVERS ; do
    R="${R}nameserver $NS
"
  done

  id
  echo "Updating resolv.conf for $dev.inet with:"
  echo "$R"

  echo "Waiting for 3 seconds so that resolve.conf picks up interface changes ..."
  sleep 3
  echo "Running $RESOLVCONF -a \"${dev}.inet\" ..."

  #echo -n "$R" | $RESOLVCONF -x -p -a "${dev}"
  #echo -n "$R" | $RESOLVCONF -x -a "${dev}.inet"
  echo -n "$R" | $RESOLVCONF -a "${dev}.inet"
  ;;
down)
  $RESOLVCONF -d "${dev}.inet"
  ;;
esac

# Workaround / [email protected] 
# force exit with no errors. Due to an apparent conflict with the Network Manager
# $RESOLVCONF sometimes exits with error code 6 even though it has performed the
# action correctly and OpenVPN shuts down.
exit 0