[How-to] PFSense OpenVPN Site-to-Site with (DHCP) Dynamic Internet Address

On January 7, 2014, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Setting up an OpenVPN site to site connection when one side is using DHCP to acquire an Internet IP Address in 5 minutes or less.

 

Here is the 5 minutes How-to on setting up 2 PFSense devices with a site to site VPN. For this example I will be using 2 Netgate m1n1wall systems that utilizes PC Engines ALIX 2D13 network boards with 3 LANs. Both are connected… Continue reading

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You run DCDiag and it returns a failure that names can not be resolved.

testing server: default-first-site-name\mydomain
starting test: connectivity
the host 7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local could not be resolved to an
ip address. check the dns server, dhcp, server name, etc
although the guid dns name
(7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local) couldn’t be
resolved, the server name (myhost.mydomain.local) resolved to the ip
address (192.168.1.5) and was… Continue reading

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