Selamlar, On 12/23/13 18:01, Timur Aydin wrote: > On 12/23/13 17:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. >>> It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. >>> Everything is working fine. >>> >>> Now I have installed a VPN server on this system (OpenVPN) and I am >>> using a VPN service provider to get a USA IP address. >> Can you give us a better idea of what is running where? Who is the VPN >> client, who is the server, what are the IP addresses, hostnames, etc? >> >> > I am located in Turkey. The VPN service provider is > http://www.strongvpn.com and they have servers all over the world. I am > using their server located in New York. Once I establish the SSL VPN > tunnel, the NY server effectively becomes my internet gateway. I need to > do this to get around websites that impose geographical restrictions on > their service (example, netflix.com, pandora.com). With the tunnel, I > look like I am located in NY and the website has no way of knowing that > I am in Turkey. > > Regarding IP address, do you mean the USA IP address I receive from the > VPN service provider or my ISP assigned static IP? >
Note that as we don't have actual data, the following is mostly speculation: Once the VPN connection is established, among the routes pushed by your OpenVPN provider is also a default gateway entry which routes every non-local packet through the vpn. Your daemons at home receive a packet via your static Turkish address but, because you got your default gw configured to be your vpn provider, the response packet goes through NY. Due to reverse-path filtering or some other fact of nature, it's dropped somewhere along the way. If that's the case (big if :)), here's what you need to do: http://lartc.org/lartc.html#AEN267 Hope that helps. Best, Burak
