If OpenVPN connected to the server properly, but you are having trouble connecting to websites, the first thing to find out is if there is a DNS problem. To check that, try to access a website by using its IP address instead of its name.

Oct 10, 2011 · What does "Direct clients to redirect internet traffic" do when checked? And what does "Respond to DNS" do when checked? To learn what DNS is, see this article. OpenVPN Access Server supports pushing an instruction to a connecting OpenVPN client to use a specific DNS server. Actually it supports pushing 2 DNS servers, in case the first one fails to respond. This can be configured in the Admin UI under VPN Settings. The OpenVPN Azure AD client utilizes DNS Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) entries, which means DNS servers will not be listed under the output of ipconfig /all. To confirm your in-use DNS settings, please consult Get-DnsClientNrptPolicy in PowerShell. I was never able to get the LRT224's DNS server to work through OpenVPN either. My guess is that the LRT224 simply won't respond to DNS queries from different subnets. I can say that you can run a DNS server on another machine and it will work. I use my Synology NAS as my LAN's DNS server and it works perfectly over OpenVPN as well.

Question about 2 options in the advanced tab, VPN server

-I did add push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.7.1" on the OpenVPN server.-Local DNS works fine on LAN-I can ping from LAN to OpenVPN-LAN and viceversa. Yes, ping to local-DNS (192.168.7.1) also works. I'm currently able to access the Internet over the VPN, but only if I either use an external (public) DNS or use plane IP addresses (no DNS at all). Oct 10, 2011 · What does "Direct clients to redirect internet traffic" do when checked? And what does "Respond to DNS" do when checked?

Speed up OpenVPN and get faster speed over its channel

Jun 27, 2017 · On my router I hard coded the DNS addresses of my two VPN providers (10.x.x.x addresses which can only be addressed via the VPN tunnel) In the .ovpn files I have substituted the IP address of the VPN server for the name (one provider, other already had the IP address specified) On my CentOS 7 "router" PC I am running openvpn. OpenVPN is a well-known VPN client for secure remote access or virtual private networking. If you use OpenVPN and experience a slow speed over its channel, you might be getting annoyed. This issue is very common for all OpenVPN users. While the general advice you can find on the Internet is to tweak the MTU […]