OpenVPN and DNS

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Tue Nov 1 14:58:50 EST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:31:47PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> Everything else seems to be working fine. When I ssh or point firefox to 
> an IP address on the other side of the tunnel, it works okay, and when I 
> put hosts on the other end into my client's /etc/hosts file it works 
> fine. But when I try to point resolv.conf at the DNS server across the 
> tunnel, lookups just fail.

This implies that your tunnel handles TCP packets but not UDP
packets.

-dsr-




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