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Max Max Waterman wrote: > OK, I couldn't figure out how to route through an vpn interface on > another machine, so I set up the machine as another openvpn host. > > I've added routes to the config file as such : > > route www.swimman.com 255.255.255.255 Typically routes are not used with _names_ but _addresses_ > etc > > and that works fine. Did you really use the above notation? > > However, some host's ip addresses don't resolve to a single address. For > example : > > # host www.wiebetech.com > www.wiebetech.com is an alias for premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net. > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.157 > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.158 > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.159 > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.164 > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.165 > premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net has address 66.218.79.166 > > I can set up each one as so : > > # www.wiebetech.com is an alias for premium2.geo.yahoo.akadns.net. > route 66.218.79.157 255.255.255.255 > route 66.218.79.158 255.255.255.255 > route 66.218.79.159 255.255.255.255 > route 66.218.79.164 255.255.255.255 > route 66.218.79.165 255.255.255.255 > route 66.218.79.166 255.255.255.255 > > and that works most of the time, but it seems that dns responds > differently sometimes. > I thought that something like this would work : > > route 66.218.79.0 255.255.255.0 > > assuming that it cycles through a whole subnet of addresses, but it fails. Routing does not cycle through anything, it just takes the network address masked by the netmask and compares. > > I can't seem to find a detailed explanation of the format for this line. > Can someone enlighten me? All depends on your underlying routing software, e.g. the OS. For Linux using the ip command it would be ip route add 66.218.79.0/24 via xx.xx.xx.xx device ethx For Windoze I would have to look it up myself but in any case some kind of _add_ keyword would be required for a number of end user equipment. IOS based devices just use route AFAIK. The manual is your friend here Erich ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |