Is every relevant search term blacklisted as "too common"

aaronhilton

Just out of curiosity, why is it impossible to do any productive searching on these forums? It seems like every word that I search for that is relevant to the issues I am having are resulting in an error that "the words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words." I can search for useless terms all day, but when I look for anything VPN-ish, I'm denied...

These "too common" words include iptables, firewall, address, range, command, conf, and I'm sure many others....

Why in the world would the forums be configured to disallow searches for the exact things that the forums are designed to help people troubleshoot?

Can someone fix this to make things useful?

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TinCanTech

The search function on this Forum has never worked for me ..

I use google or duckduckgo with the "site:forums.openvpn.net" identifier.

EG .. Stick this into google:

site:forums.openvpn.net redirect gateway windows block-outside

TiTex

that's probably because fulltext search is not enabled or it's broken

TinCanTech

As I understand it, this Forum runs on a VM. The search function is disabled because when it was enabled the Forum was too unresponsive.

Sprbe01

I have successfully set up openvpn access using [moderator deleted]. I get connected to the VPN from my [moderator deleted]. I can ping the router 192.168.0.1 and other computers in the the network. There are however two that I can't. When in the LAN locally no problem. They are both [moderator deleted]. Very strange any ideas?

TinCanTech

Sprbe01 wrote I have successfully set up openvpn access using [moderator deleted]. I get connected to the VPN from my [moderator deleted]. I can ping the router [1] 192.168.0.1 and other computers in the the network. There are however two that I can't. When in the LAN locally no problem. They are both [moderator deleted]. Very strange any ideas?

The Magic 8-Ball says ..

===[ PLEASE DO NOT HIJACK THREADS ]===

Due to the stunningly poor quality of the post above this thread has been closed.

Please see:
HOWTO: Request Help !

[1] 192.168.0.1

NOTE: your local LAN uses the extremely common subnet address 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x. Be aware that this might create routing conflicts if you connect to the VPN server from public locations such as internet cafes that use the same subnet.

ecrist

aaronhilton wrote Just out of curiosity, why is it impossible to do any productive searching on these forums? It seems like every word that I search for that is relevant to the issues I am having are resulting in an error that "the words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words." I can search for useless terms all day, but when I look for anything VPN-ish, I'm denied...

These "too common" words include iptables, firewall, address, range, command, conf, and I'm sure many others....

Why in the world would the forums be configured to disallow searches for the exact things that the forums are designed to help people troubleshoot?

Can someone fix this to make things useful?

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I've updated the forum search index and our common word settings so that the functionality works now. Please test and make sure it's working as you would expect it to and provide any feedback.

Thanks!

TinCanTech

I will continue to use google, it is much faster and more flexible.

aaronhilton

ecrist wrote
I've updated the forum search index and our common word settings so that the functionality works now. Please test and make sure it's working as you would expect it to and provide any feedback.

Thanks!

So far it looks much better. Thanks for making the change!!!