Cannot access server IP

akmalhisyam

Hi,
I've some problem in configuring my OpenVPN server.
When client is connected to the vpn, they can browse other website, but not the website hosted on the vpn server itself.

According to my traceroute output, when browsing other website, the traffic is routed trough the vpn, but when browsing the website on the server, it is routed through the default internet connection.

What did I do wrong?

janjust

you didn't do anything wrong: openvpn needs a directed (i.e. non-VPN-ed) route to the VPN server itself; if you want to view a website hosted on the VPN server itself then browse to the VPN IP of the server, e.g. https://10.8.0.1

if you want https://<site> to always go via the VPN tunnel then you'll need to pull some DNS tricks

Mimiko

I thread with same problem: https://forums.openvpn.net/topic8992.html
Try using iptables.

akmalhisyam

Thanks!
I tought i did something wrong.

and thanks for this mimiko 🙂

Having OpenVPN client on the LAN as a gw for those computers and is installed on linux, you can use iptables to rewrite destination ip for the OpenVPN server from public IP to OpenVPN IP:
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0{LAN} -d {OpenVPN server public IP} --gw {OpenVPN server tunnel IP}
Check the correct sintax, because am low on iptables,

akmalhisyam

i have another question,
how to monitor clients bandwith usage?
I prefer a web GUI..

Mimiko

For a GUI monitor - try googling and search. I don't know anyone except a full iso linux based system with GUI and firewall and internet shaping.
Usually for bandwith monitur is used "iptables" statistics and "interface" statistics.