Sounds good, no? Well, no. The problem is that all DNS from Amahi is routed through opendns.com, not my ISP. I don't want my DNS routed through opendns.com. At all. Opendns.com returned my ping for a non-existent host. So, I thought I had the right host name when I didn't. Needless to say, opendns.com will not respond to Windows' attempts to set up a VPN.
Here's the ping results for the wrong hostname:
[root@amahi etc]# ping -n stargate.sea.X.Y
PING stargate.sea.X.Y (208.67.216.132) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 208.67.216.132: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=41.7 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.216.132: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=42.5 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.216.132: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=44.3 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.216.132: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=42.5 ms
64 bytes from 208.67.216.132: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=42.6 ms
^C
Here's the ping results for the right hostname:
[root@amahi etc]# ping -n stargate-sea.X.Y
PING stargate-sea.X.Y (206.191.173.188) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from a.b.173.188: icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=44.8 ms
64 bytes from a.b.173.188: icmp_seq=2 ttl=118 time=43.1 ms
64 bytes from a.b.173.188: icmp_seq=3 ttl=118 time=42.7 ms
^C
I changed the names and some of the IP addresses because this is a public forum. Hopefully it is clear enough that ping returns packets just fine and from different IP addresses. The only difference in the host name is a "-" instead of a "." between "stargate" and "sea".
How do I change this? I have Amahi set up on a static IP inside my network behind a firewall. I thought that I'd entered the firewall as the DNS to use, but in /etc/named.conf, I see:
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# automatically generated file by hdactl
options {
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
forward only;
forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };
listen-on port 53 { X.Y.1.17; 127.0.0.1; };
};
...
Thanks for any tips to solving this problem.
Best,
Kyle