can't connect to clients using hostnames

[Hans Voss]

Are you perhaps trying to set the DNS to a server on the other side of
the VPN? (That's a recipe for distaster, it'll start building the
connection, then it throws over the DNS and then it doesn't have the
DNS information to complete the connection).

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:08 AM, sich <sich op cafe-philo.net> wrote:
> Zig Rave a écrit :
>
>
> > i'm running several windows machines and one gentoo linux machine with
>  > tinc and all the windows computers connect and work fine, and they all
>  > can connect to the linux computer fine but the linux computers can't
>  > connect to the hosts if i use a hostname in the Address field.  the
>  > hostnames work everywhere else in the system, and if i use the IP
>  > addresses in the hosts files it works, just not using a hostname of
>  > domain name.  Ideas anyone?
>  >
>  > -Ryan
>
>  What do you call the hostname ? Full hostname like www.tinc-vpn.org or
>  juste tinc-vpn ?
>  If you use full hostname then you need to check your dns configuration
>  (check wich nameserver is used), and if it's only the hostname (like
>  tinc-vpn) you need to put the information in the /etc/hosts files...
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