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    [2.2] Strong Swan DNS Problems with mobile users

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      networkninja
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      Well I guess nobody cares except those that are affected by this…

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        dwood
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        I was hung up in the same situation.  I took my first crack at OpenVPN which I got configured, routing and pushing out client install packages in about 15 minutes.  Very slick on both iOS and PC.

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          doktornotor Banned
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          @networkninja:

          Well I guess nobody cares except those that are affected by this…

          What's not reported cannot get fixed => https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4418

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            dstroot
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            For what it's worth I have asked several times about setting up an IPSEC VPN with a current version of iOS (apple iphone, not Cisco).  I can't get it to work for the life of me but for some reason vpn'ing back in via your iPhone or iPad doesn't seem to get a lot of attention here.  If I could figure it out I'd be happy to create a nice guide with screenshots, etc and hopefully put it up on the Wiki.

            I feel OpenVPN (which does work well) is clunky and I would prefer a "built-in" option.

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              cmb
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              @doktornotor:

              What's not reported cannot get fixed => https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4418

              Thanks notor, I was already looking into it.

              @dstroot:

              but for some reason vpn'ing back in via your iPhone or iPad doesn't seem to get a lot of attention here.

              Because it works perfectly fine. And there are instructions.
              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/IPsec_Road_Warrior/Mobile_Client_How-To
              though the instructions in the 2.1x book are better in general, and equally applicable to 2.2.

              I tend to have to limit my involvement here to things that are quickly addressable, or things indicative of a bug of some sort. We setup mobile IPsec for iOS for support customers all the time, and use it ourselves with iOS and OS X.

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                eri--
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                Can you please test the change done for https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4418 and report back?

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                  doktornotor Banned
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                  @ermal:

                  Can you please test the change done for https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4418 and report back?

                  Cannot see any commit there. In general, there seems to be some issue with Redmine showing commits with a significant delay.

                  EDIT: Finally there, took over 30 minutes  ???

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                    networkninja
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                    Thanks for looking into this!

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                      Garrett
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                      Just found a workaround by appending another bogus domain name in my split-dns list from: "mydomain.com" to "mydomain.com bogus.com". That seemed to do the trick.

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                        cmb
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                        @Garrett:

                        Just found a workaround by appending another bogus domain name in my split-dns list from: "mydomain.com" to "mydomain.com bogus.com". That seemed to do the trick.

                        That'll work around it. The root issue, which was a client-side problem, was fixed in OS X El Capitan for sure, and I believe a newer iOS version than this thread originally referenced as well.

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