Connecting to ItsHidden in Ubuntu 9.10 problems
- by Ionel Bratianu
I try to setup a VPN connection to ItsHidden on Ubuntu 9.10. I double-checked my credentials in the VPN configuration, but I don't think that this is problem. In my syslog I got these messages:
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 4502
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 1
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jan 11 14:38:46 pppd[4506]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5//nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: VPN connection 'ItsHidden' (Connect) reply received.
Jan 11 14:38:46 pppd[4506]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Jan 11 14:38:46 pppd[4506]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Jan 11 14:38:46 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Jan 11 14:38:46 pppd[4506]: Connect: ppp0 /dev/pts/1
Jan 11 14:39:06 pptp[4508]: nm-pptp-service-4502 fatal[get_ip_address:pptp.c:430]: gethostbyname 'vpn.itshidden.com': HOST NOT FOUND
Jan 11 14:39:06 pppd[4506]: Modem hangup
Jan 11 14:39:06 pppd[4506]: Connection terminated.
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Jan 11 14:39:06 pppd[4506]: Exit.
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Jan 11 14:39:06 NetworkManager: Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.
Jan 11 14:39:19 NetworkManager: [1263213559.003098] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 4502 to exit
Jan 11 14:39:19 NetworkManager: [1263213559.003289] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 4502 cleaned up
Because the gethostbyname is failing, I suppose that the NetworkManager doesn't know that I use proxies for accessing Internet. I'm not sure that this is the real problem.
Could you tell me a solution to make gesthostbyname not failing anymore?