No DNS entry for OpenVPN client?

tzalmaves

Hello all,

My OpenVPN client connects to PfSense. When I run nslookup on my OpenVPN client, I can enter hostnames of any PfSense LAN clients and get an IP address, but when I try to lookup the hostname of my OpenVPN client (in other words I am trying to find myself in nslookup), it does not show up (see below, the OpenVPN client is "asusvivobook" and has an ip address of 192.168.121.2).

Is this something that should work given a correct configuration?

C:\Users\xxx>nslookup
Default Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.121.1

> zotac
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.121.1

Name:    zotac.localdomain
Address:  192.168.110.143

> xbox
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.121.1

Name:    xbox.localdomain
Address:  192.168.30.88

> asusvivobook
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.121.1

*** UnKnown can't find asusvivobook: Non-existent domain
>

Gertjan

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Gertjan

@tzalmaves said in No DNS entry for OpenVPN client?:

Is this something that should work given a correct configuration?

You want to register OpenVPN clients into the local DNS, like this :

?

tzalmaves

@Gertjan OK thanks, I didn't realize that the DNS name is tied to the pfSense user name used when connecting to the OpenVPN server.