[GRLUG] VPN access to website on LAN

[Eric Beversluis]

Strange--it's working now without any addition to /etc/hosts.

I don't know what did it. It seemed to start working after I went into
Firefox to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Network>Settings and changed "Use
system proxy settings" to "No proxy." But when I changed FF back to "Use
system proxy settings" it continued to work, even after clearing all
Firefox history.

I had earlier found that traceroute to the website URL worked correctly
and that wget www.website.com correctly fetched the index page of the
site.

Whatever.

Thanks.

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 03:13 -0400, megadave wrote:
> 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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