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    Cant resolve hostname using OpenVPN

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      sorhol
      last edited by

      I have domain xxx.yyy

      I have hostnames like pfsense and NAS

      Using OpenVPN I cant resolve eg NAS - I have to use full name NAS.xxx.yyy

      I am sure I had this working before the update. But now I cant find the correct setting again…

      TIA

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        marvosa
        last edited by

        post your server1.conf.

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          sorhol
          last edited by

          dev ovpns1
          dev-type tun
          tun-ipv6
          dev-node /dev/tun1
          writepid /var/run/openvpn_server1.pid
          #user nobody
          #group nobody
          script-security 3
          daemon
          keepalive 10 60
          ping-timer-rem
          persist-tun
          persist-key
          proto udp
          cipher AES-128-CBC
          up /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup
          down /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkdown
          client-connect /usr/local/sbin/openvpn.attributes.sh
          client-disconnect /usr/local/sbin/openvpn.attributes.sh
          local 86.48.84.194
          tls-server
          server 10.0.100.0 255.255.255.0
          client-config-dir /var/etc/openvpn-csc
          username-as-common-name
          auth-user-pass-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.php via-env
          tls-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-verify.php
          lport 1194
          management /var/etc/openvpn/server1.sock unix
          max-clients 3
          push "route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0"
          push "dhcp-option DOMAIN holte.home"
          push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.1"
          push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.10.1"
          ca /var/etc/openvpn/server1.ca 
          cert /var/etc/openvpn/server1.cert 
          key /var/etc/openvpn/server1.key 
          dh /etc/dh-parameters.1024
          tls-auth /var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-auth 0
          comp-lzo
          persist-remote-ip
          float
          push "route 10.0.10.0 255.255.255.0"
          
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            pfbits
            last edited by

            What kind of client machine are you coming from?

            If it's Windows, can you post the output of "ifconfig /allcompartments /all" ?

            I'm wondering if your local machine is seeing the domain suffix of your remote network properly.

            On my Windows machines, connecting to an OVPN server that pushes an internal DNS server to me (for internal office machine naming) I have to ensure that I get the domain suffix of the office applied to my machines.

            Sometimes (using OVPNGUI on my Windows 7 Machine) this does not happen unless I start OVPNGUI "as administrator" so that the push commands can be executed as admin, and make the appropriate changes on my local machine.

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              sorhol
              last edited by

              Hi pfbits,

              I found out myself after you pointed me in the right direction.

              I had a faulty DNS suffinx setting on the VPN adapter. This was due to misconfiguration of OpenVPN (I changed my domain name at one time).

              So now everything is working as it should.

              Thank you very much for helping me out.

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