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| Author: | dan5544 [ Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | vpn connecting but can't browse websites (mac osx) |
I used this guide http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn/ubuntu-10.04-lucid to setup my vpn. I ran all the commands on my linode with root access, copied relavent files to my client and setup tunnelblick. When I use tunnelblick it's successful in connecting to the vpn. After that, i can ping my linode ip and 10.8.0.1 but nothing else else seems to work. I can't ping www.google.com for example and i can't browse any websites. Where can I look to start trouble shooting what's going on? I made sure to do the iptables part of the openvpn setup as well as installing dnsmasq. But I still can't browse any websites. |
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| Author: | dan5544 [ Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | figured it out! |
my particular problem was that i had specified ip's for my DNS in network settings. once i deleted them and reconnected to the VPN it pushed down DNS settings to use (DNS Server = 10.8.0.1, Search Domains = openvpn) i just got lucky trying different things out and figured it out. but one thing that helped was looking at the log files. the relevant files are /etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log /etc/openvpn/openvpn.log by default openvpn will put logs in /var/log/syslog but i changed my /etc/openvpn/server.conf so the log would goto openvpn.log instead hope this helps someone else out there. |
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