Pages won't load when connecting through OpenVPN on Linux (Backtrack 5)

[crypticalhost 0]

Hello. I'm a newbie to openvpn and to airvpn service.  Everything works fine on my windows computer but I'm currently trying to use Airvpn service on my linux computer running backtrack 5.

 

I've tried generating multiple configuration files and when I use them I cannot surf the web. 

 

I use OpenVPN and it looks like it works I get the

 

'Thu Feb  6 15:21:35 2014 Initialization Sequence Completed'
 

 

 

Then I try to browse the web in firefox and no pages load. I have tried pinging a website and it doesn't work. 

 

I cannot seem to find any answers on the web. Help is appreciated.

[Staff 9782]

Hello!

 

It might be a DNS issue, can you please publish the output of the following commands:

 

ping -c 4 google.com

ping -c 4 8.8.8.8

ping -c 4 10.4.0.1

 

Kind regards

[crypticalhost 0]

Here are the output of the commands:

 

ping -c 4 google.com
ping: unknown host google.com


ping -c 4 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=219 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=241 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=265 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=288 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 219.713/253.704/288.142/25.533 ms


ping -c 4 10.4.0.1
PING 10.4.0.1 (10.4.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=280 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=212 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=226 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=250 ms

--- 10.4.0.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 212.891/242.802/280.760/25.769 ms
 

[Staff 9782]

Hello,

 

yes it definitely looks like a DNS issue, please check the content of your /etc/resolv.conf file and also see here to accept VPN server DNS push: https://airvpn.org/topic/9608-how-to-accept-dns-push-on-linux-systems-with-resolvconf

 

Kind regards

[crypticalhost 0]

I followed the steps in your link. I must have done something wrong because the resolv.conf contents still did not change.

 

I just edited the contents myself to:

 

nameserver 10.4.0.1
nameserver 10.4.0.1
domain home.network
search home.network

 

It works. Is this a bad method?