Comments on: VPN Connection in Edgy

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By: Phil W

Phil W — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:18:13 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu 7.10 with Network Manager (and am an Ubuntu virgin). The basic setup is fairly straight forward (given an import file and the required certificate and key files). What I can’t figure out how to do is to get DNS configured appropriately. Let me explain…

When not VPNed to work I can access internet sites fine. When I do VPN into work I can access my company’s internal network but cannot access the internet. What seems to happen is that the resolv.conf file is automagically updated when the VPN is started and reset on disconnect.

When disconnected it has my ISP’s DNS server listed. When connected it has my company’s DNS server.

How can I influence the content of this file to keep my ISP’s DNS server as the primary entry and my company’s DNS server as a secondary entry?

There is an update-resolv-conf in /etc/openvpn (the directory I put the certificate and key files) which has a comment about setting it as the up and down file in the *.conf file for the VPN connection. However, the Network Manager doesn’t provide any inputs for up and down scripts. How do I configure it? Or is there some other way of doing this?

Help please!

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By: Scold

Scold — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:43:52 +0000

bambit: “Looks like i found an answer to my question after a good night’s sleep. Went to gconf-editor via terminal and unset the keys for the two non-working connections. When I exited gconf-editor I checked the VPN list in network-manager and now only the working one is listed.”

Thanks, solved my problem

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By: franz see

franz see — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:39:11 +0000

I can’t seem to connect to my VPN Connection. And the error message is just

VPN Failure
Could not start the VPN Connection MyVPN.

Any ideas how to fix this, or as to how I can get more details from the error message so that I know what went wrong?

Thanks

By: 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:20:39 +0000

Ubuntu verbinden met Windows VPN

Nadat Jeroen al eens uitzocht hoe ik vanaf thuis kan verbinden met het Pareto netwerk via de Cisco VPN verbinding, moest ik vanmorgen even wat bestanden van mijn netwerk thuis ophalen. Nou werk ik wel met Linux, thuis draait toch een Windows server. Du…

By: bambit

bambit — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:28:15 +0000

Looks like i found an answer to my question after a good night’s sleep. Went to gconf-editor via terminal and unset the keys for the two non-working connections. When I exited gconf-editor I checked the VPN list in network-manager and now only the working one is listed.

By: bambit

bambit — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:54:33 +0000

Hello! This post has solved two of my biggest networking problems in Feisty, connecting to the vpn at our office, and doing so with a wireless connection! Talk about two birds with one stone.

There’s just one strange thing about my network-manager though. I have two VPN configurations left over from two previous attempts at making the vpn connection run (install-deinstall-reinstall) and now I have three vpn connection choices, only one of which i can edit (the newest one, the one that works).

Any idea how i can remove the two other VPN configs and just leave this third one that works?