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Hi all.

I just want to let everyone know of some issues I had with the VPN and how I fixed them. I guess I'm also after confirmation that what I've done won't affect anything else.

Everything was working fine, except the DNS while I was at work and running the VPN (on an intel mac using tunnelblick). I could get my HDA and associated websites no worries, but no others. Any other site resulted in a DNS error, not resolving etc.

After watching /var/log/messages while trying to resolve an outside IP I noticed a lot of "denied" errors scrolling up. It was a simple permissions problem. After a bit of digging I found this site - http://www.hansenonline.net/Networking/bind.html that explained how to add allowed IP ranges to named.conf. here's what I had to add to /etc/named.conf to get it to work for me:

acl trusted {
192.168.10.0/24;
10.8.0.0/24;
localhost;
};

Then under the options section I added:

allow-query{ trusted; };
allow-transfer { trusted; };

After saving the files, I restarted named (service named restart) and bam, DNS is working.

Hopefully this helps someone, as I scratched my head over this for a while.

I've also just discovered I have to go back in and make these changes again if I install an application (amahi overwrites the named.conf to add another entry for the new app).

nice work jasmus! please file a bug in http://bugs.amahi.org and we will take care of this for amahi 5.1!

it's great that you took action to investigate it!

also, we can prepare a test version of hdactl for you to try soon, so that we can start testing the fix.

with the condition that you file a bug for this ( ) ... here is a potential fix:

- 64 bits: http://alpha.amahi.org/tmp/hdactl-3.0-5.x86_64.rpm
- 32 bits: http://alpha.amahi.org/tmp/hdactl-3.0-5.i386.rpm

(you do rpm -Uvh and the url of the rpm you need above)

please do file a bug...

also, i did not enable transfers, as i do not believe that is needed.

anyone trying this rpm please do report here!

Thanks for the quick response!

I've installed the rpm and I'll let you know how it goes (I'm on my weekend, so I won't know until Sunday).

I did head over to the bug tracker, but I will admit I can't quite figure out how to file a bug...

great, under project "platform" then "new issue" ...