Hi,

I think it's a known "feature" that some apple services including
facetime bypasses the VPN tunnel. See the link below which is for the
connect client, but the community version should behave the same in
this particular case.
https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/faq-regarding-openvpn-connect-ios/

Selva

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 5:55 PM Aarti Anand <aarti.mun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dajka, thank you for responding! I actually have been using an IPv6 over an 
> IPv4 tunnel. Do I need to setup an IPv6 tunnel? or IPv6 addresses over an 
> IPv4 tunnel should work?
>
> thanks,
>
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 3:50 PM Dajka Tamás <vi...@vipernet.hu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> without knowing your exact configuration it’s pretty hard to answer J My 
>> first guess would be, that your tunnel is IPv4 only, while facetime and 
>> hangouts uses IPv6 (and the client has an IPv6 address).
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>>                Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Aarti Anand [mailto:aarti.mun...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 11:40 PM
>> To: Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Openvpn-users] Facetime bypassing the tunnel
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all, Facetime is bypassing the tunnel setup via openVPN. Is that 
>> expected? Is there any workaround for it?
>>
>>
>>
>> To be precise, I have set up an openVPN client on an iOS device and 
>> connected to the openVPN server running on an ubuntu machine. I notice that 
>> the Facetime from the iOS device is bypassing the vpn tunnel. Similar 
>> behavior with Google hangouts. And wonder if there is a known issue and 
>> something obvious that I might be missing. thanks for reading and taking the 
>> time to respond.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Aarti Anand,
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