Unable to resolve DNS address when connected to OpenVPN serv

[viffer]

Hi,

I've read many topics about this but no topic I found gave me the solution. I have a Ubuntu server running OpenVPN, this is the config file

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dev tun
proto tcp
port xxxx
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.crt
key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.key
dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/dh1024.pem
user nobody
group nogroup
server 192.168.254.0 255.255.255.0
topology subnet
duplicate-cn
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
client-to-client
push "redirect-gateway def1"
log-append /var/log/openvpn
comp-lzo

I connect a windows 7 client using the following config file

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dev tun
client
proto tcp
remote x.x.x.x xxxx
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
# Try to preserve some state across restarts.
persist-key
persist-tun
ca "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\client.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\client.key"
comp-lzo
# Set log file verbosity.
verb 4

On the server the following iptables are set

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Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
MASQUERADE  all  --  192.168.254.0/24     anywhere

Now I can connect to my VPN and also use the resources on the remote LAN. But I can't resolve any hostnames so it's impossible to surf to for example google. I can ping google's IP address (74.125.132.100) but when I try to ping google.com I don't even get an IP address.

Anyone an idea what might be wrong?

[viffer]

Don't ask me why, but something I've tried like 10 times works now; I added a line to my server configuration:

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push "dhcp-option DNS x.x.x.x"

and it works.