Can't access sites via domain only via ip

[radudiaconu0]

Hello

After coinnecting to vpn via openvpn3 session-start successfully i can access the intranet websites only via IP but not via domain. On windows it works perfectly but her eon linux it doesn't. can someone help me?

[dsommers]

Can you please provide some details about your setup? Which Linux distribution and version? How do you start the VPN session?

And can you run these command as root and provide the output?

 # openvpn3-admin version --services
 # openvpn3-admin init-config

(The init-config will not change anything on your system when run like this)

[radudiaconu0]

Hello @dsommers

I use ubuntu linux 23.10

i start the session like this
openvpn3 session-start --config myconfig

[dsommers]

Okay, first - Ubuntu 23.10 is potentially unstable with OpenVPN 3 Linux v21. Please install this development version of OpenVPN 3 Linux, using this PPA repository: #171 (comment)

So to the output from the init-config command ... The "Network Configuration" result is a bit unexpected. Can you verify that your host really uses /etc/resolv.conf and not the systemd-resolved service? If your host uses /etc/resolv.conf, you can tell OpenVPN 3 Linux to use that too by running this command:

 # openvpn3-admin netcfg-service --config-unset systemd-resolved   # !! This command may fail; that's okay
 # openvpn3-admin netcfg-service --config-set resolv-conf /etc/resolv.conf

[radudiaconu0]

ok i run the commands

[radudiaconu0]

this is my output now

[radudiaconu0]

@dsommers still doesn't work

[dsommers]

What is the content of /etc/resolv.conf before and after the VPN session has started?

[radudiaconu0]

and after it is unchanged

[radudiaconu0]

do it added the domains i guess. but still cant access them

[dsommers]

I also asked for /etc/resolv.conf before the VPN session started. You will need to share the complete content. This file does not contain anything security sensitive at all (IP addresses are not secrets).

And instead of a "screenshot", please just copy paste the content from your terminal. Just use the "Quoting code" trick in github.

[radudiaconu0]

That was the content before starting the session

[dsommers]

The opening line "Generated by OpenVPN 3 Linux" already then indicates an issue on your host .... do you have an /etc/resolv.conf.ovpn3bak file present? Does that contain the same? If that is truly what should be the original, move that to /etc/resolv.conf. Otherwise, you need to reconfigure this file to the default DNS servers you use before you start a VPN tunnel.

[radudiaconu0]

[radudiaconu0]

# This is /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf managed by man:systemd-resolved(8).
# Do not edit.
#
# This file might be symlinked as /etc/resolv.conf. If you're looking at
# /etc/resolv.conf and seeing this text, you have followed the symlink.
#
# This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients directly to
# all known uplink DNS servers. This file lists all configured search domains.
#
# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only
# through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a
# different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
#
# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.

nameserver 192.168.1.1
search .

this is the content for /etc/resolv.conf.ovpn3bak

[dsommers]

Okay .... it looks like your whole resolver setup is in a bad shape. That should be a symlink to /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf .... but that's again not the recommended way how to use systemd-resolved. At the same time, I also know that Ubuntu has it's own way of doing stuff; it does ship with a half-baked systemd-resolved setup - and I'm not up-to-date on what it does on Ubuntu 23.10.

I would need to setup a 23.10 host somewhere and poke at it more carefully to better propose a good way forward. I won't be able to do that today, unfortunately (calendar is filled up today).

[radudiaconu0]

@dsommers why i get this?

[dsommers]

You need to first unset the resolv-conf setting:

 sudo openvpn3-admin netcfg-service --config-unset resolv-conf

The resolv-conf and systemd-resolved settings are exclusive, you can only use one of them - not both at the same time.