pptp vpn issues

[sawarsi]

i was running kubuntu 16.10 and had no issues with pptp vpn. i then installed 17.04 and now with the same setup for the vpn i cannot resolve names on the vpn domain. any ideas how to find this issue?

another thing is that when the vpn is up i can ssh to various machines on that network by IP addresses but not with their name.domain.

thanks for any help.

[sawarsi]

ok, got this to work and here is how i did it:

1. i started the vpn connection
2. ssh to a machine on the LAN and did a cat /etc/resolv.conf
3. noted the nameserver IP addresses
4. edited as root the /etc/resolv.conf.d/tail and added the following lines:
nameserver IP_ADDRESS1
nameserver IP_ADDRESS2, etc.
5. saved this file
6. resolvconf -u

now when i start the vpn connection then i can resolve by name.domain