Trouble resolving DNS for my OpenVPN connections

[rk47]

@tsaylor

I’m using a GL-AR750S Slate device on the 3.013 testing firmware, trying to establish an OpenVPN connection (in this case, to the provider VPNUnlimited). It’s failing to connect after a 30 second timeout, and the reason seems to be that it is using an incorrect IP “recently used” address:

I confirm this issue is present on other devices which are running 3.013 firmware. See this post for more information:

Bugs for v3

I recognize this problem and will attempt to explain it: I am using an AR300 as a WiFi access point. It is a wired ethernet client of my primary gateway router. WiFi is completely disabled on the gateway, and it does not have any VPN service configured because I want some devices on my LAN to have a low-latency connection. The mode switch on the AR300 is set to “router” because I want the devices on this subnet to be isolated from several untrusted devices which are connected to the primary…