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I have my own OpenVPN Access Server.  In order to get Linux Lite to work with it fully, I was told this by the folks at OpenVPN:

Quote:Hello Torrey,

I am reviewing this ticket and I get the feeling that the problem is entirely related to DNS.

Here's something to try:
Connect your Linux machine with the internet rerouting function enabled and then ping 8.8.8.8. If that works, then next try pinging www.google.com.

I suspect the ping to www.google.com will fail.

Interestingly I see that 127.0.1.1 is being used as your DNS server. That is a local loopback IP, meaning your own computer is functioning as the DNS server. However it is doing that, it is probably running a local DNS server and when it doesn't have an answer for a query it will try to query some external DNS server. And that one appears not to be reachable.

Next try this;
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

Change the line that states
nameserver 127.0.1.1

To:
nameserver 8.8.8.8

And save and exit. Now ping www.google.com. Does it work now?



Kind regards,
Johan Draaisma
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc.

It did work.  I also had to add 8.8.8.8 as seen below.



My question is this, is what the folks at OpenVPN saying true?  If so, why does Linux Lite appear to be functioning as the DNS server using the 127.0.0.1 address?