The VPN's are actually on Mac OSX clients ( both clients are up to date ) I followed the instructions at http://blog.theilluminatedengineer.com/?p=136 for setting up a VPN using the existing software on the macs.
I initially did a mac book pro and it works quite well, I can surf with Safari and I can VNC and SSH to my local network from my iPad using the VPN server on the mbp. Of course this in 3G mode. I am using a mac mini has a home server and it is always on ( when I am awake). I have set up a dns server on the mini that is primarily for my home network but it will call out to the isp servers if a name cannot be locally resolved. The macbook pro uses the dns server on the mini and also the 8.8.8.8 from google as a backup. The mini also uses itself and 8.8.8.8 as dns resolvers. When I turned on the VPN on the mini I found that it sorta kinda worked. If I use numeric ips then I can VNC and SSH to the machines on my local network from the iPad ( always running in 3G mode). However all of the network aware apps on the iPad fail claiming that the iPad is not connected to the internet. I am guessing some kind of DNS name resolution problem. I am baffled as to why the VPN server on the mini is borked but the VPN server on the mbp is running like a champ... The logs show no problems... Any insight would be appreciated. Jerry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
