Hi On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:45 PM Jan Just Keijser <janj...@nikhef.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 01/07/20 14:51, Marco De Vitis wrote: > > Hi, > I use OpenVPN client 2.4.9 on Windows 10 (v2004), and I have issues with the > Network Location Awareness (NLA) Windows service. > > The issue is essentially described here, even though it dates back to Windows > 7: > https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/archive/blogs/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/office-2013-reports-no-internet-connectivity-with-vpn-connection > > My symptoms are the same: when I connect to my company VPN using OpenVPN, > soon or later (maybe after minutes, maybe hours) the NLA service decides that > no internet access is available, I get the "no internet access" tray icon, > and some applications do not work as they should, notably Spotify and Office > 365 in my case. Nevertheless, all other applications work fine and I can > successfully access the web and my company LAN. But those apps refusing to > connect are very annoying. > > When this happens, this script actually finds no failed checks: > https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4340-network-connection-status-indicator-ncsi-test > > > what happens if you add to your config > > route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 vpn_gateway 9999 > > (or push "route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 vpn_gateway 9999" from the server) ? > > that sometimes helps Windows NLA to allow traffic over the VPN.
In this case not all traffic is being sent via the VPN and there is no redirect-gateway def1 in use. Almost all traffic continues to go via the LAN and the default gateway is maintained on that interface. So all those links about broken ncsi don't apply. I suspect DNS through VPN is broken. Selva _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
