Connecting to VPN remotely requires the public IP address...

[doni49]

I have a FQDN pointing to my home IP address. But when I attempt to connect OpenVPN using that FQDN, I get the following message.

Sat Jun 22 10:01:45 2013 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: RasPiHomeNAS.donireland.com: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found.
Sat Jun 22 10:01:45 2013 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1371913305,RESOLVE,,,
Sat Jun 22 10:01:45 2013 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: RasPiHomeNAS.donireland.com: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found.
Sat Jun 22 10:01:50 2013 RESOLVE: signal received during DNS resolution attempt

However, if I ping the FQDN, I DO get a reply which tells me the IP address. I can then have OpenVPN make the connection using that IP address.

What I don't understand is that the DNS is obviously able to provide the proper IP address for the FQDN. So why can't OpenVP use that info?

TIA!

[maikcat]

can you post your config?

Michael.

[doni49]

Thanks. But as I was gather the info so that I could post it for you, I found a typo.