dns

bartels

Hello Forum,

I have a small setup with perhaps 20 clients, all registered in a dns.
Everything runs fine, but I have one hickup: openvpn does not consult the dns when picking an ip address for a new client.

What I do now is populate ipp.txt from the dns before (re-)starting the openvpn server.
Obviously, this is a workaround, because I need to restart the server. Or do I?

How can I persuade openvpn to use the dns for assigning ip addresses?
In particular how do I tell openvpn which host name to use.

Thanks,
Bartels.

maikcat

hi there,

How can I persuade openvpn to use the dns for assigning ip addresses?

dns for assining ip addresses????? :shock:

dhcp you mean, right?
Michael.

bartels

dns for assining ip addresses?????

dhcp you mean, right?

Probably, yes. I am not familiar with the openvpn internals, it could very well be that dhcp is used to configure the client.

My question is about the client ip address itself: the server obtains it from the pool, rather than doing a dns lookup.

I would like for it to consult the dns and assign the corresponding ip address.
The question is how do I tell openvpn which host name to use.

Thanks,
Bartels.