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    Openvpn error if server is a domain name instead of an IP address

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      glauco.b
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      Hello all

      At first thanks for the great job in pfsense 2.0.

      I'm trying to configure a site to site VPN. The client side is pfsense while the server side is a plain openvpn over Linux installation.

      The server works with other clients, but has a dynamic address, so I need to use a no-ip.org dyndns service to make it reachable.

      pfsense 2.0 allows to insert a domain name in the field "server host or address", but whatever domain name I use  instead of an IP address, it always complaints that "the field must contain a valid IP address or domain name" and does not apply the configuration

      Using an IP address always works, but obviously this is not what I need…

      is this a bug, or is there something I need to know to work it around?

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