Hi,

Sorry to raise this again but *some* progress has been made with the access 
issues that 
I've been having at the WMT.  There is a diagram showing the physical 
arrangement of the 
devices on site (and in my local test rig) at:

https://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Network_Configuration.png[1]

As well as the Webserver, the Pi at 192.168.0.1 includes a DNS Server (created 
using 
dnsmasq).  This serves up the hostnames of all the devices on the WMT Network.  
 Here is 
a synopsis of the current situation:

*  The Webserver content is accessible to Visitors on site without any reported 
issues to 
date. This means that Nodogsplash is doing what it should do.

*  The Webserver (and all other networked devices) may be accessed from a 
laptop logged 
into the WMT Network via the on site Antennas.

*  The DNS Server works properly for all devices logged into the WMT Network 
from the 
site.

*  The Webserver is inaccessible to clients logged into the VPN Network via VPN 
unless an 
intermediate device is used as a 'stepping stone'. (eg, log into another Pi and 
then log in to 
the Webserver from there.

*  The DNS Server does not work for clients logged into the VPN Network via VPN.

I have had multiple conversations with the author of pistrong. Despite numerous 
suggestions, nothing seems to work in respect to getting direct access to the 
Webserver 
or the DNS Server remotely.

There has been one new thing discovered; there doesn't seem to be a route 
between the 
VPN Server and the Webserver. It seems to me that would account for the 
behaviour I'm 
seeing but I can't see why the routing isn't working at the moment.  If I query 
iptables, the 
routing seems to be there:

sudo iptables -L 
[sudo] password for vuser:  
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) 
target     prot opt source               destination          

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) 
target     prot opt source               destination          
ACCEPT     all  --  10.1.10.0/24         192.168.0.0/24       policy match dir 
in pol ipsec reqid 1 
proto esp 
ACCEPT     all  --  192.168.0.0/24       10.1.10.0/24         policy match dir 
out pol ipsec reqid 1 
proto esp 
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere             state 
RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere             

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) 
target     prot opt source               destination
If from my client PC with VPN Active I do the command:

*terry@OptiPlex*:*~/Useful*$ systemd-resolve --status 
*Global* 
      Protocols: -LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported 
resolv.conf mode: foreign 
*Link 2 (eno1)* 
   Current Scopes: DNS 
        Protocols: +DefaultRoute +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported 
Current DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 
      DNS Servers: 192.168.1.1

I can't see the DNS Server on 192.168.0.1:


This problem isn't the end of the world; it's just plain inconvenient.  If 
anyone can see 
anything that I should check (or better still the deliberate error in the 
system), I'd be 
extremely grateful.

-- 



                Terry Coles

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[1] https://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Network_Configuration.png
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