[GRLUG] VPN access to website on LAN

[megadave]

your local linux box isn't using the remote DNS.

Easiest way to fix it is to add an entry in /etc/hosts on the local
linux machine, with the name of the site and the IP of the "at work"
server.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> I've got a website set up on our server at work (ClearOS); the website
> also has a production version at GoDaddy. I've got the local DNS on the
> server working so I can get to the local version from the LAN. But now
> I'm trying to do the same thing when connected via pptp from home, and
> all I can get is the GoDaddy version.
>
> I know the VPN connection is working, since I can connect to hosts at
> work with their private IP addresses and log into the ClearOS webconfig
> using 192.168.1.1. I can use RDP to connect to a Windows server on the
> LAN that has no public IP address.
>
> There's stuff online about how to set up Windows to either have the
> browser go through the VPN or not, but I haven't found anything about
> how to do it in Linux. I saw something that suggested that the browser
> should go through the VPN by default. But mine is clearly not doing
> that. I've tried clearing my browser cache and also rebooting the
> computer.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
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