Thank you, yeah, I figured out that the split dns just doesn't work out of box, VPN just inserts its DNS server into the first place in the list of resolvers and there is no way around it. I hoped that there is the swift way to manipulate this list, as I couldn't find a reasonable way to do it from the shell script. Then I planned to hook this program into the vpn connection state monitor. Anyway, I have found about /etc/resover, so, at least, name resolution for my local network now works. Thanks again Any