This is driving me crazy because I can’t work out where to look.
I have a VPN server running on an Asus router in Florida. I can connect to it with my laptop from the UK using OpenVPN client and browse anything.
I have a GL-MT300N-V2 running in the UK and attached by wifi to my UK router. It works ok so that part of the setup is OK
When I run OpenVPN as a client on the MT300 it does access the openvpn server in Florida because I can connect (wirelessly) to the MT300 with my laptop and run whatsmyIP (in chrome) and it returns the florida location
BUT - It won’t let me access any sites, so typing walmart.com into the browser just times out. Is there a DNS setting I need to change?
I haven’t changed any firewall settings on the MT300. I assumed that because I can access the USA router and view sites (when I am not running openVPN as a client on the MT300) the problem had to be with the openVPN settings.
But if I can go to whatismyip,com and get a result, how is that any different from trying to get on the Walmart.com site
No it isn’t that. What I have noticed is that I can access Google ok, so if I type LOWES it finds lowes.com and I CAN visit that site (I guess because it is cached in my browser). If I type TARGET, google finds the site, but when I click the link to go to the site, it times out with
Check if there is a typo in www.target.com.
If spelling is correct, [try running Windows Network Diagnostics](javascript:diagnoseErrors()).
Can you ping a site you can access and one you can’t? OpenVPN uses 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 as redirect routes - I’m wondering if the sites you can access are in one half and the sites you can’t are in another.
Pinging lowes.com [23.193.120.119] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 23.193.120.119: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=52
Reply from 23.193.120.119: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=52
Reply from 23.193.120.119: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=52
Reply from 23.193.120.119: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 23.193.120.119:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 159ms, Maximum = 165ms, Average = 162ms
I have never used cloudflare - I am happy to give it a try, I just don’t want to introduce something else I don’t fully understand and potentially make it harder to diagnose the problem
Pinging mit.edu [104.98.76.146] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 104.98.76.146: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=49
Reply from 104.98.76.146: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=49
Reply from 104.98.76.146: bytes=32 time=191ms TTL=49
Reply from 104.98.76.146: bytes=32 time=187ms TTL=49
Ping statistics for 104.98.76.146:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 187ms, Maximum = 199ms, Average = 191ms
C:\Users\XXX>ping tamu.edu
Pinging tamu.edu [165.91.22.70] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 165.91.22.70:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Can you access the website at TAMU? I just realized that ping is blocked, but web isn’t. If you can’t, then it looks like 0.0.0.0/1 traffic is going through but 128.0.0.0/1 traffic isn’t.
Can you just live without that half of the internet? (Kidding of course).
I can’t access either site. Even after BOTH sites timed out I went back and repinged mit.edu and that gets a reply. When I try to go to the sites in Chrome, I get Waiting for play.google.com in the status bar before it times out
