Does OpenVPN connect not support punycode domains?
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:03 pm
Hi,
I have an OpenVPN server set up. This all works fine, and I can access it remotely using the server's ip address. Now I wanted to access it with a domain that contains non-ascii characters. I've changed "remote <ip address> <port>" to "remote <domain> <port>" in the .ovpn file, but that fails to connect. When I manually convert the domain to it's punycode format and write that in the .ovpn file, it works again. This is not really a big deal, but it looks a bit ugly in the interface. Is this a bug in the OpenVPN Connect app or OpenVPN directly or am I just doing something wrong?
I have an OpenVPN server set up. This all works fine, and I can access it remotely using the server's ip address. Now I wanted to access it with a domain that contains non-ascii characters. I've changed "remote <ip address> <port>" to "remote <domain> <port>" in the .ovpn file, but that fails to connect. When I manually convert the domain to it's punycode format and write that in the .ovpn file, it works again. This is not really a big deal, but it looks a bit ugly in the interface. Is this a bug in the OpenVPN Connect app or OpenVPN directly or am I just doing something wrong?