Le 07/08/2023 à 22:39, Selva Nair a écrit :
Hi,
Hi Gert, many thanks, everything's fine, the "block-outside-dns" option
works perfectly, but we'll have to use OpenVPN GUI only, as OpenVPN
Connect rejects this as an unknown option. Not a big deal, at least we
have a working solution.
I'm just being curious, is there any reason why you would prefer Connect
over OpenVPN-GUI? Apart from the superficial looks, that is....
Thanks,
Hi Selva,
For a few different reasons, none of which is really a good one however,
I plead guilty. ;-)
In fact I began using OpenVPN Connect at work, coupled with OpenVPN
Access Server, because we needed MFA and a kind of post-auth checking.
In my private activities, for a not-for-profit organisation, until
recently I was still using the open source versions of the server and
the client however. But a few months ago, when some of my users told me
they were sometimes having DNS lookup problems, I made a few tests with
the "OpenVPN Connect" client, which at first seemed less prone to DNS
problems. I now know this is dead wrong, as the problem lies in the O.S.
itself.
Another reason which incited me to continue using the "Connect" client
was the fact that for rather old people not very accustomed to VPNs and
the like (my "customers" are mostly retired people in their sixties or
seventies), having a big window open, with a clear feedback showing data
flowing in and out and displaying quite clearly valuable information as
the local IP address and the server's address, seemed easier to use and
also for me to diagnose when problems occur.
I'm now reverting to OpenVPN GUI, anyway. That's going to give me a
little more work with some of my users, but nothing too serious.
Regards,
Bruno
_______________________________________________
Openvpn-users mailing list
Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
