openvpn client don't resolve names

t0bias · 06-14-2007, 08:38 AM

hi there,

i'm using openvpn to access the company's network from outside.
when connected, every machine is accessible through it's ip.
within the intranet are several machines, that should also be
accessilbe through their names.
the openvpn-host can access the computers via their names,
the dns is correctly registered in the host's /etc/resolv.conf

as the clients can't, they don't seem to use the dns of the
openvpn-host.

how to solve this problem?

thanks,

toby

acid_kewpie · 06-14-2007, 08:48 AM

well can you do a host command to directly contact a certain dns server over the vpn? do the clients settings really list the dns servers?

t0bias · 06-14-2007, 08:54 AM

no, the host command (for the intranet-part, what concerns the internal dns) does not give a result and the clients don't list any dns for the tunnel-device.

acid_kewpie · 06-14-2007, 09:10 AM

so can you ping the dns servers? if you can ping the hosts then isn't the dns server just one of these?

t0bias · 06-14-2007, 09:48 AM

i figured out the problem myself:

i pushed the dns-suffix first, then the routes.
as i changed the order (as described in the man-pages)
it worked. openvpn seems to be very sensitive about the
order of config-params

thanks anyway