[b] Summary: [size=110]How to bind the windows hostname of the machine to the regular LAN-Adapter. For some reason after installing OpenVPN the hostname is bound to 10.8.0.1. So when you ping your hostname it pings to 10.8.0.1[/size][/b] Details: OpenVPN installs an additional "OpenVPN TAP-Windows6" Network Adapter. Thus your network has following config: [color=#804040]LAN-Adapter ------> 192.168.2.140 OpenVPN TAP-Windows6 Adapter -> 10.8.0.1[/color] If the hostname of my machine is DOLLY and I ping that hostname from my internal network my ping is sent to 10.8.0.1. If I connect to my machine using "DOLLY" it connects to 10.8.0.1. I want it to connect to 192.168.2.140. How can I tell windows to resolve DOLLY to my LAN-Adapter (and not OpenVPN adapter)? [code] >ping DOLLY -4 Ping wird ausgeführt für DOLLY [10.8.0.1] mit 32 Bytes Daten: Antwort von 10.8.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit

[quote=TinCanTech post_id=103021 time=1636318398 user_id=37053] [quote=UltraFine post_id=103019 time=1636309929 user_id=54845] [quote=TinCanTech post_id=103018 time=1636307351 user_id=37053] Then your DNS is configured to resolve to that address. [/quote] Obviously, the question is where to change that. [/quote]The question is: Why does your DNS resolve DOLLY to 10.8.0.1 ? [/quote] I cannot answer that question. I do not know. This is what I actually would like to find out.

How to bind hostname to (first) LAN-Adapter IP instead of 10.8.0.1? (Windows)

UltraFine

Summary: How to bind the windows hostname of the machine to the regular LAN-Adapter. For some reason after installing OpenVPN the hostname is bound to 10.8.0.1. So when you ping your hostname it pings to 10.8.0.1

Details: OpenVPN installs an additional "OpenVPN TAP-Windows6" Network Adapter. Thus your network has following config:

LAN-Adapter ------> 192.168.2.140
OpenVPN TAP-Windows6 Adapter -> 10.8.0.1

If the hostname of my machine is DOLLY and I ping that hostname from my internal network my ping is sent to 10.8.0.1. If I connect to my machine using "DOLLY" it connects to 10.8.0.1. I want it to connect to 192.168.2.140.

How can I tell windows to resolve DOLLY to my LAN-Adapter (and not OpenVPN adapter)?

>ping DOLLY -4

Ping wird ausgeführt für DOLLY [10.8.0.1] mit 32 Bytes Daten:
Antwort von 10.8.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=128
Antwort von 10.8.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=128
Antwort von 10.8.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=128
Antwort von 10.8.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=128

TinCanTech

UltraFine wrote If the hostname of my machine is DOLLY and I ping that hostname from my internal network my ping is sent to 10.8.0.1

Then your DNS is configured to resolve to that address.

UltraFine

TinCanTech wrote
UltraFine wrote If the hostname of my machine is DOLLY and I ping that hostname from my internal network my ping is sent to 10.8.0.1
Then your DNS is configured to resolve to that address.

Obviously, the question is where to change that.

UltraFine

One solution I have found has to do with "interface metric". Setting the LAN-Interface metric lower than the OpenVPN-Interface makes ping to go for 192.168.2.140. Though I would like to figure out how this can be handled with DNS.

TinCanTech

UltraFine wrote
TinCanTech wrote
UltraFine wrote If the hostname of my machine is DOLLY and I ping that hostname from my internal network my ping is sent to 10.8.0.1
Then your DNS is configured to resolve to that address.
Obviously, the question is where to change that.

The question is: Why does your DNS resolve DOLLY to 10.8.0.1 ?

UltraFine

TinCanTech wrote
UltraFine wrote
TinCanTech wrote Then your DNS is configured to resolve to that address.
Obviously, the question is where to change that.
The question is: Why does your DNS resolve DOLLY to 10.8.0.1 ?

I cannot answer that question. I do not know. This is what I actually would like to find out.

TinCanTech

Unless you have some weird script/app updating your DNS server with the new IP then Openvpn has nothing to do with DNS.