Cannot Resolve Host Address

[Swings]

My VPN has been running smoothly for quite some time now, until today
where it began to repeatedly drop the connection. The log just repeats
this message:

2011-06-22 00:19:15 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:20:20 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:21:25 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:22:30 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:23:35 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:24:40 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:25:45 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:26:50 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
2011-06-22 00:27:55 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

[Randy Witlicki]

At 9:29 PM -0700 6/21/11, Swings wrote:
>My VPN has been running smoothly for quite some time now, until today
>where it began to repeatedly drop the connection. The log just repeats
>this message:
>
>2011-06-22 00:19:15 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
>tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.

>...<snip>...

>2011-06-22 00:27:55 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: stpn.secure-
>tunnel.com: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
>
>Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
>

I just tried to do an nslookup on the above host and it times out.
A whois lookup returns the DNS server as NS1.SSR-INC.NET and that
seems to not be responding to queries.

So, it does not look like a VPN problem, but a network or DNS problem.

Randy

[Swings]

Hmm so are there any steps I can take to solve this? Or should I just
wait it out?

[jkbull...gmail.com]

You could try to contact secure-tunnel's tech support, although that will be difficult because their website is down. If you have emails from them from when you first set up your account, you could try to email them.

Or you could try a different VPN service provider. There's a list at http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/wiki/wGettingVPNService.

[Jonathan K. Bullard]

"ping" and certain other commands on OS X do not use the OS X standard DNS resolvers, so it doesn't always work properly.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ben <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have the same issue. I'm on OSX 10.6.8

If I do a ping on OSX
I get

Last login: Fri Nov  9 16:18:36 on ttys000
Mac-Pro:~ benoitpro$ ping openvpn.anonine.net
ping: cannot resolve openvpn.anonine.net: Unknown host


On debian
benoit@x61:~$ ping openvpn.anonine.net
PING openvpn.anonine.net (80.67.8.220) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from polydeuces.anonine.net (80.67.8.220): icmp_req=1 ttl=62
time=38.9 ms
64 bytes from polydeuces.anonine.net (80.67.8.220): icmp_req=2 ttl=62
time=42.0 ms
64 bytes from polydeuces.anonine.net (80.67.8.220): icmp_req=3 ttl=62
time=39.0 ms
64 bytes from polydeuces.anonine.net (80.67.8.220): icmp_req=4 ttl=62
time=45.3 ms
^C
--- openvpn.anonine.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 38.925/41.361/45.347/2.627 ms

Realy strange

Le mercredi 22 juin 2011 18:06:01 UTC+2, jkbull...gmail.com a écrit :

You could try to contact secure-tunnel's tech support, although that will be difficult because their website is down. If you have emails from them from when you first set up your account, you could try to email them.

Or you could try a different VPN service provider. There's a list at http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/wiki/wGettingVPNService.

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[Ben]

I've found the solution. It was only a problem of DNS.
I've change my DNS and use the one of google in Network Settings/Advanced.

Now it's fixed. ;)

Everything works well.

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