OpenVPN and DNS

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Tue Nov 1 16:22:43 EST 2005


dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:31:47PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> 
>>Everything else seems to be working fine. When I ssh or point firefox to 
>>an IP address on the other side of the tunnel, it works okay, and when I 
>>put hosts on the other end into my client's /etc/hosts file it works 
>>fine. But when I try to point resolv.conf at the DNS server across the 
>>tunnel, lookups just fail.
> 
> 
> This implies that your tunnel handles TCP packets but not UDP
> packets.
> 
> -dsr-

I'll check that when I get home tonight.

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