Internal DNS/Config File Help

lightingman2003

Hi.

I have recently finished setting up OpenVPN on my Raspberry PI, and have 2 keys created so far, one for my laptop & one for my iPhone. All works nicely, but I have come accross a small issue.

I cant seem to connect/ping network devices by their name, such as "mybooklive". I know DNS is working as I can ping google.com, and it responds as it should do. I can however ping and connect by their internal IP address (192.168.*)

A quick overview of my setup:

TP-Link WDR3600 Router running on 192.168.* IP's, no-ip set up and working for my Dynamic external IP address
Port 1194 forwarded for OpenVPN to my Raspberry PI which has a static IP
Open VPN running on 10.8.0.0/24, OpenVPN DNS set to GoogleDNS (8.8.8.8, & 8.8.4.4).

I have tried adding my router (192.168.0.1) to the OpenVPN config file (/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf), but when I save & re-start the OpenVPN service on my Pi, it saves & restarts OK, but makes no difference the next time I try and re-connect.

I did notice in my OpenVPN log, when I commented out the secondary DNS (8.8.4.4), this too made no affect. I can paste examples of my config/log here when I get home tonight.

Is there anything im doing wrong?

Thanks

lightingman2003

What i need help on is configuring my OpenVPN config file to allow Internal DNS. Ill post a few lines of log and my config file a bit later.

Ive spent hours trying different things, but to no avail.

Please can you help me?

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lightingman2003

Hi.

Below are a sample of the openvpn log & config. I have censored all external IP addresses for privacy.

/var/log/openvpn
Fri Dec 20 21:08:08 2013 client2/(censored):40324 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.8.0.6, IPv6=(censored)
Fri Dec 20 21:08:08 2013 client2/(censored):40324 MULTI: Learn: 10.8.0.6 -> client2/(censored)
Fri Dec 20 21:08:08 2013 client2/(censored):40324 MULTI: primary virtual IP for client2/(censored): 10.8.0.6
Fri Dec 20 21:08:11 2013 client2/(censored):40324 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST'
Fri Dec 20 21:08:11 2013 client2/(censored):40324 send_push_reply(): safe_cap=960
Fri Dec 20 21:08:11 2013 client2/(censored):40324 SENT CONTROL [client2]: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1,dhcp-option DNS 192.168.0.1,dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8,route 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0,topology net30,ifconfig 10.8.0.6 10.8.0.5' (status=1)
Fri Dec 20 21:08:12 2013 client2/(censored):40324 Replay-window backtrack occurred [11]
Fri Dec 20 21:08:13 2013 client2/(censored):40324 Replay-window backtrack occurred [27]
Fri Dec 20 21:08:13 2013 client2/(censored):40324 Replay-window backtrack occurred [33]
Fri Dec 20 21:08:13 2013 client2/(censored):40324 Replay-window backtrack occurred [49]

OpenVPN config file:
dev tun
proto udp
port 1194
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.crt
key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.key
dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/dh1024.pem
user nobody
group nogroup
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
persist-key
persist-tun
status /var/log/openvpn-status.log
verb 3
client-to-client
push "redirect-gateway def1"
#set the dns servers
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.0.1"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
#push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4"
log-append /var/log/openvpn
comp-lzo

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Lightingman2003

lightingman2003

I am aware that no public DNS will have the records of my internal network, hence why I have tried adding the IP of my main router to the config file.

I just want to know if there is a way to get it working.

Dont appreciate negative comments.

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