[SOLVED] Moved address, DNS lookup fails

[Bob.Dole 0]

I've changed address, and so am using a different internet connection and provider. I can connect to the vpn fine, and the p2p protocol works, but when I try to go to a website it says DNS lookup failure. Any suggestions? 

 

Thanks in advance

[mrano 5]

Are you using windows or linux? Are you using the AirVPN client?

 

If on Windows, can you go to Start -> Run -> CMD -> type "ipconfig /all" and then copy paste the output (right click, mark) here?

[Bob.Dole 0]

Using linux, anyone else got any suggestions?

 

Thanks:)

[Staff 10016]

Hello!

 

Do you have resolvconf installed? Can you send us the content of your /etc/resolv.conf file?

 

Kind regards

[Bob.Dole 0]

Thanks for the response.

 

Contents of resolv.conf:

 

# This file was written by dns-fix (mintsystem)

# OpenDNS
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

# Google DNS
# nameserver 8.8.8.8
# nameserver 8.8.4.4

 

I may be wrong here, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that AirVPN has its own DNS server, how would I go about using that rather than google's or OpenDNS? Also, I seem to remember when I started using OpenDNS instead of my ISP's I changed settings in my router to point them at it. Could it be something to do with that, since I am now using a different router?

[Staff 10016]

Hello!

 

Yes, we have our own VPN DNS:

10.4.0.1

10.5.0.1 etc. (see also https://airvpn.org/specs)

 

10.4.0.1 is accessible regardless of the AirVPN server port your system connects to.

 

Try to set:

 

nameserver 10.4.0.1

as first nameserver in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

 

Also check how that "dns-fix" works, just in case it overwrites your /etc/resolv.conf.

 

A more elegant solution is accepting the DNS push from our servers. For that you'll need to install resolvconf package (if available for your Linux distribution):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvconf

 

and add the following lines to your .ovpn configuration file(s):

 

script-security 2
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

 

The script update-resolv-conf is provided in most OpenVPN packages, but if you don't have it you can just create it in the /etc/openvpn directory (watch out for permissions). The content of the script is attached in the text file below.

 

Kind regards

 

 

update-resolv-conf.content.txt