OpenVPN Client and Windows XP
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:40 pm
Please excuse my ignorace in these matters, if I fumble please point me in the right direction.
Overview: Have installed OpenVPN client version 2.3.18 on Windows XP system, downloaded config files from 2 x VPN servers, and attempted to connect. First connection to server #1 failed to connect, block-outside-dns errors in log, using that servers config files. Second connection to server #2 connected with their config files no problem. Looked at the first config file and found command block-outside-dns, commented this out and low and behold this was able to connect no problem.
Q1: Does XP support this switch, block-outside-dns, or am I missing something.
Checked both connections with dsnleak facility, both leaked so attempted to apply the fix they state is appropriaten for XP version and named dnsleakfix, which supposedly flushes dns cache etc. via some batch and vb script files. This did not appear to solve the leaking problem, they also outline a manual procedure for carrying this out.
On attempting to follow these commands at the cmd level a number of the netsh commands were not valid on my system, such as set dnnserver
Q2: Do I need some other version of netsh etc. to perform these functions, or yet again am I missing some.
Your kind help on this would be most appreciated.
Overview: Have installed OpenVPN client version 2.3.18 on Windows XP system, downloaded config files from 2 x VPN servers, and attempted to connect. First connection to server #1 failed to connect, block-outside-dns errors in log, using that servers config files. Second connection to server #2 connected with their config files no problem. Looked at the first config file and found command block-outside-dns, commented this out and low and behold this was able to connect no problem.
Q1: Does XP support this switch, block-outside-dns, or am I missing something.
Checked both connections with dsnleak facility, both leaked so attempted to apply the fix they state is appropriaten for XP version and named dnsleakfix, which supposedly flushes dns cache etc. via some batch and vb script files. This did not appear to solve the leaking problem, they also outline a manual procedure for carrying this out.
On attempting to follow these commands at the cmd level a number of the netsh commands were not valid on my system, such as set dnnserver
Q2: Do I need some other version of netsh etc. to perform these functions, or yet again am I missing some.
Your kind help on this would be most appreciated.