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| author | David Lönnhager <david.l@mullvad.net> | 2021-03-25 12:58:45 +0100 |
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| committer | David Lönnhager <david.l@mullvad.net> | 2021-03-31 13:15:29 +0200 |
| commit | 95e11ef39b1d55c77490a5526ac5c87971a570ef (patch) | |
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Explain why DNS fails for excluded apps in some states
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diff --git a/docs/split-tunneling.md b/docs/split-tunneling.md index b4eb40b151..ff9838f81d 100644 --- a/docs/split-tunneling.md +++ b/docs/split-tunneling.md @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ or not running. But this is very hard/impossible to achieve on some platforms. One reason for this is that on some operating systems, programs call into a system service for name resolution. This system service will then perform the actual DNS lookup. Since all DNS requests then originate from the same process/system service, it becomes hard -to know which ones are for excluded apps and which ones are not. +to know which ones are for excluded apps and which ones are not. Because the DNS service is not +excluded, DNS lookups **will fail** in the connecting, disconnecting, and error +[states](architecture.md) whenever they must be sent through a tunnel. Some definitions of terms used later to describe behavior: |