ANSWERED DNS Problem? Can only connect to airvpn.org

[MrCasaubon 1]

Hi there,

 

Just installed AirVPN. I can connect to airvpn.org without any issues, but not to any other site. I have tried both with UDP and TCP. I'm using Bodhi Linux.

 

If I ping 10.4.0.1 everything seems to be fine:

 

PING 10.4.0.1 (10.4.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=226 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=136 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=137 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=136 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=136 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=6 ttl=64 time=252 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=141 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=8 ttl=64 time=258 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=9 ttl=64 time=244 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=10 ttl=64 time=230 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=11 ttl=64 time=205 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=12 ttl=64 time=137 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=13 ttl=64 time=137 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.0.1: icmp_req=14 ttl=64 time=136 ms
^C
--- 10.4.0.1 ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 received, 0% packet loss, time 13054ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 136.783/179.914/258.041/50.208 ms
 

Same if I ping 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_req=1 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=6 ttl=48 time=178 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=7 ttl=48 time=178 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6026ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 178.244/178.580/178.917/0.377 ms
 

 

traceroute google.com doesn't produce any results, it just hangs in there forever.

 

Thanks!

 

[Staff 10691]

Hello,

 

yes, it seems a DNS issue. If you don't have resolvconf or openresolv packages installed, please edit your /etc/resolv.host file (as root)

 

and add the line:

 

nameserver 10.4.0.1

 

Then try again, feel free to update the thread.

 

Kind regards

[MrCasaubon 1]

Hi again,

 

Thanks for the reply. I do have resolvconf. I edited resolv.conf to add the line nameserver 10.4.0.1 and now everything works great...but I did see a warning on the file to not edit by hand as it will be overwritten. Anything else I need to change?

 

Thanks

[Staff 10691]

Hello,

 

since you have resolvconf (sorry, the previous message was incomplete...) a more elegant solution is available.

 

Add to your .ovpn configuration files (to all of them) the following lines:

 

 

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

 

so that OpenVPN will accept the DNS push from our servers, and at the disconnection will restore the previous nameserver(s).

 

Make sure that "update-resolv-conf" script path is correct in your box.

 

up & down OpenVPN directives are used to tell OpenVPN to execute a script. "script-security 2" sets OpenVPN security level to 2, which means to allow calling of built-in executables and user-defined scripts.

 

Kind regards

[MrCasaubon 1]

Excellent. Done and problem sorted. Thanks for the help