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    Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.

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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by KOM

      Your images are microscopic and unreadable. You can add images here directly without linking to an external site via the Upload Image button on the far right of the Edit toolbar.

      What are your firewall rules on your OpenVPN tab? Can the problem clients ping out anywhere or is DNS resolution the only problem? Can they ping the OpenVPN server interface?

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        Yeah those are impossible to make out.. Love to take a look and help you with your problem, but just can not make out anything in those pics

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        • S
          szneo
          last edited by szneo

          My apologizes for the images size. I've just uploaded full sizeded images as you indicated.

          I'll be posting firewall rules when I get pfsense in a few hours today. Nothing complex, just normal wan/lan and the rule that the pfsense assistance insert for openvpn.

          Thank you in advance.

          Regards,

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            Only the rules on the OpenVPN tab matter at this point. WAN/LAN rules aren't relevant to your problem for now.

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            • GertjanG
              Gertjan
              last edited by Gertjan

              Like :

              18178eb6-463f-4a69-9308-cb27407f6a1c-image.png

              See here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscIIZ10WTQ&t=5016s 54 minutes, 19 seconds.

              As you can see, IPv4 and IPv6 traffic hits these rules just fine -> traffic is passing.

              Note : because I created a dedicated Interface from the auto created "OpenVPN", I added my rules on the "VPN" interface - the list with rules on OpenVPN can be left empty. See the official https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtZxuC9IyTg for this.

              edit Your images are still not readable. Click on mine, created by the windows capture tool.

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              • PippinP
                Pippin
                last edited by Pippin

                Look at "DNS Server enable" and "WINS server enable", those are tunnel IPs.
                I doubt there is a DNS/WINS server listening on that address.

                The following addresses are not usable in topology subnet:
                192.168.100.0
                192.168.100.1
                192.168.100.254
                192.168.100.255

                *Edit to be more accurate.

                I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
                Halton Arp

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                • GertjanG
                  Gertjan @Pippin
                  last edited by

                  This :
                  @Pippin said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtZxuC9IyTg
                  192.168.100.254
                  192.168.100.1

                  are valid addresses.
                  pfSense is delivered with a 192.168.1.1 on it's LAN.

                  "WINS" servers still exists these days ?

                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                    szneo
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for the answers.

                    I'm attaching the rules for firewall view.

                    Please let me know if its needed more information.

                    Wan
                    ovpn wan.png

                    Lan
                    ovpn lan.png

                    Openvpn Tab
                    ovpn tab.png

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                    • GertjanG
                      Gertjan
                      last edited by Gertjan

                      Your OpenVPN firewall rule looks fine.
                      33,86 MB of traffic passed by : ok.

                      It's time to make this :

                      430cae38-b9af-4ac8-9e0e-33066a74502b-image.png

                      readable.

                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                      • KOMK
                        KOM @Gertjan
                        last edited by

                        @Gertjan It must be your settings because his updated images look good to me. I can read every line, and I have pretty thick glasses.

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                        • S
                          szneo
                          last edited by

                          Thanks for your comments again.

                          Ive just edited images at full image size, hope it works this time.

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                          • PippinP
                            Pippin @Gertjan
                            last edited by

                            Images look fine here too.

                            @Gertjan said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                            This :
                            @Pippin said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtZxuC9IyTg
                            192.168.100.254
                            192.168.100.1

                            are valid addresses.
                            pfSense is delivered with a 192.168.1.1 on it's LAN.

                            "WINS" servers still exists these days ?

                            It won't work...
                            .0 is the tunnel network designation
                            .1 is the servers tunnel IP
                            .254 is OpenVPNs internal DHCP server
                            .255 is broadcast
                            Leaving 252 addresses for clients.

                            There is an exception though. The servers tunnel IP could be used to point to a service if that service is running on the OpenVPN host.
                            Pointing to a service is typically not done on tunnel addresses.

                            I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
                            Halton Arp

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                              szneo @Pippin
                              last edited by

                              @Pippin said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                              It won't work...
                              .0 is the tunnel network designation
                              .1 is the servers tunnel IP
                              .254 is OpenVPNs internal DHCP server
                              .255 is broadcast
                              Leaving 252 addresses for clients.

                              192.168.100.254 it's the pfsense gateway and we put the " IPv4 Tunnel Network " as 192.168.100.0/24 for supposedly new openvpn clients get an IP from the same Pfsense LAN ( 192.168.100.0/24 ).

                              Thanks for your comments.

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                              • PippinP
                                Pippin
                                last edited by

                                That's not how it works.

                                Your tunnel network cannot be your LAN network...case of conflicting subnets.

                                I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
                                Halton Arp

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                                  szneo @Pippin
                                  last edited by

                                  @Pippin said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                                  That's not how it works.

                                  Your tunnel network cannot be your LAN network...case of conflicting subnets.

                                  @Pippin thanks for the clarification. Could you confirm to me if, after changing the ' Virtual Tunnel Network ' to anything else ( ie: 10.0.8.0/24 ), will be needed to add any rule to firewall/openvpn in order to that change work ?.

                                  Regards,

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                                  • PippinP
                                    Pippin
                                    last edited by Pippin

                                    All rules related to the virtual tunnel network.

                                    I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
                                    Halton Arp

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                                      szneo @Pippin
                                      last edited by

                                      @Pippin said in Only first connected user got DNS domain resolution.:

                                      All rules related to the virtual tunnel network.

                                      @Pippin really appreciate all comments. Works great now. As you mention, the error were putting the LAN network as the Virtual Network. Now, all clients connects, resolve domains and ping lan ips : ).

                                      Thank u all for the time.

                                      Regards,

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                                      • PippinP
                                        Pippin
                                        last edited by

                                        Glad you got it working.

                                        I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
                                        Halton Arp

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