reForis OVPN client UI should accept domain (FQDN) in addition to IP

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[reForis version 0.9.5]

The OVPN client UI hidden under the checkbox “Override server address” only accepts an IPv4 address. It should be modified to also accept a FQDN (fully qialified domain name). I’m using dynamic DNS (luci-app-ddns) to keep my Turris VPN accessible across IP changes. The current UI forces me to manually edit the client configuration files.

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The client configuration file allows to provide domain names in the following format

# The hostname/IP and port of the server.
# You can have multiple remote entries
# to load balance between the servers.
;remote my-server-1 1194
;remote my-server-2 1194
remote 111.222.333.444 1194

See also (which documents that domain names are resolved and re-resolved if needed.):

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Thank you for your report. We are looking into it at https://gitlab.nic.cz/turris/reforis/reforis-openvpn/-/issues/22

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While turris team is working on it, anyone who needs this can easily enter their FQDN in the conf file manually.
That’s what I am doing. Quite handy if you don’t have a static IP.

While you are at it, reForis could also get the domain from an DynDNS configuration if it is set up :wink:

But its not that important to me as it can be easily edited manually.

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