vpn connecting but can't browse websites (mac osx)
to setup my vpn. I ran all the commands on my linode with root access, copied relavent files to my client and setup tunnelblick. When I use tunnelblick it's successful in connecting to the vpn.
After that, i can ping my linode ip and 10.8.0.1 but nothing else else seems to work. I can't ping
Where can I look to start trouble shooting what's going on? I made sure to do the iptables part of the openvpn setup as well as installing dnsmasq. But I still can't browse any websites.
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i just got lucky trying different things out and figured it out. but one thing that helped was looking at the log files. the relevant files are
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
/etc/openvpn/openvpn.log
by default openvpn will put logs in
/var/log/syslog
but i changed my /etc/openvpn/server.conf so the log would goto openvpn.log instead
hope this helps someone else out there.
@dan5544:
I used this guide
~~[http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn/ubuntu-10.04-lucid " target="_blank"> ](http://library.linode.com/networking/op … 0.04-lucid">http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn/ubuntu-10.04-lucid ](to setup my vpn. I ran all the commands on my linode with root access, copied relavent files to my client and setup tunnelblick. When I use tunnelblick it's successful in connecting to the vpn.
After that, i can ping my linode ip and 10.8.0.1 but nothing else else seems to work. I can't ping
http://www.google.com for example and i can't browse any websites.Where can I look to start trouble shooting what's going on? I made sure to do the iptables part of the openvpn setup as well as installing dnsmasq. But I still can't browse any websites.
I have had no issue while connecting or browsing websites using PureVPN on MAC OSX
You can configure directly using this guide