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DNS Blocking on T-Mobile Gateway, Gateway Refuses to Accept Connection
Have been having issues lately and did some deep trouble-shooting today. All the usual trouble shooting, restart reboot gate way, reboot router, reset gateway, reset router, unplug devices, etc… Fo...
DrLipSyncher wrote:Check to make sure you are using their dns to start with before you initiate the vpn connection. I am using a software based vpn and it connects without issue.
If you are using a hardware appliance vpn, it might be hardcoded to use another dns (which should be a feature) so you will have to check the manual to modify the configuration to get it to work.
Once you establish the vpn connection you will be good, yes they can block it but it is unlikely as many people have these vpns to connect for work and many employers even ship vpn appliances to employees to enable them to have many company devices all separated out from the employee’s home network.
If they had messed with this, now they would get businesses and some of their biggest corporate patrons upset.
They actually told me on the phone IPSec and IKEV are not supported on their Dual-Stack system. Also I discovered my computer is only routing IPv4 Traffic to the VPN, when I turn off IPv6 on my physical NIC then everything goes through the VPN.
It’s all kinds of shifty.
