mcurzon
Hi there. Hope someone out there can help with this ...
My config is -
Variety of clients - windows, linux and android devices on home network.
Fibre Broadband connection with EE (so I've got a BrightBox router).
Email hosting through own domain (hosted at HostPapa).
OpenVPN AS running on a droplet at Digital Ocean.
I download and run the OpenVPN client on the android phone, the linux host and the windows host. Everything works fine, I can browse, get email, access the HostPapa control panel for my domain, etc ...
I disconnect the OpenVpn client, and now I can't access email, and I can't get to the HostPapa control panel. I can still browse the web, though.
Reconnect the client, and all is fine again.
Disconnect and the problem comes back.
Rebooting the devices doesn't help.
Disconnect android phone from wifi network (so now it's using the 4g connection), email comes flooding in (and I can get to the hostpapa control panel.
Boot up an old laptop that's never had the OpenVPN client on it, and that can't get email either (so now at least I know that it's not some routing rules stuck in the IP stack on the clients).
Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? I don't want to leave my VPN connection up all the time (it eats the battery on the phone - and that's the device that I use for email).
thanks,
mcurzon
Sorry, should have made it clear in my post.
Server is OpenVPN Acess Server install on Ubuntu.
Windows client is using OpenVPN Connect
Linux client is using the standard openvpn package from the ubuntu respository
Android client is using OpenVPN connect (stadard offering from Play store)
