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Read Connecting to Access Server with Windows Read Connecting to Access Server with macOS Read Connecting to Access Server with Android Read Connecting to Access Server with Apple iOS Read Connecting to Access Server with Linux Read Site-to-site VPN routing explained in detail Read Reach OpenVPN clients directly from a private network Read Extracting separate certificate files for a user Read Troubleshooting Read Support options for OpenVPN Read Some basic networking concepts simplified Read Troubleshooting access to the web interface Read Troubleshooting authentication related problems Read Troubleshooting problems with software licensing Read Instructions to patch licensing system on older Access Servers Read Troubleshooting client VPN tunnel connectivity Read Troubleshooting reaching systems over the VPN tunnel Read Troubleshooting DNS resolution problems Read Repairing configuration database SQLite3 files Read Recovering SSL web certificates from the config DB Read Logging and debug flag options for Access Server Read Frequently Asked Questions - Licensing Read Commonly asked technical questions Read FAQ regarding OpenVPN Connect Android Read FAQ regarding OpenVPN Connect iOS Read How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS? Read Server installation guides Client installation guides Amazon Web Services EC2 BYOL appliance quick start guide Read Amazon Web Services EC2 tiered appliance quick start guide Read How to configure the OpenVPN Access server Read Deploying the Access Server appliance on VMWare ESXi Read Google Cloud Platform BYOL instance quick start guide Read Microsoft Azure BYOL appliance quick start guide Read Installation guide for OpenVPN Connect Client on Windows Read Installation guide for OpenVPN Connect Client on macOS Read General Purchasing, licensing, and pricing OpenVPN Connect Error messages What is DNS? Domain Name System, or DNS, is the system on the Internet that resolves names like openvpn.net to an IP address like 123.45.67.89 on the Internet. IP addresses are the unique addresses of computer systems in networks, and the Internet is one big network. These addresses work like phone numbers. They are unique and allow communication between the different computers on the Internet. To expect humans to remember IP addresses for all the various websites they want to visit, is simply not practical. So we create DNS names like openvpn.net, google.com, facebook.com, on the Internet, and let a DNS server take care of translating names to IP addresses. It can also be used for shorter host names in an internal network to resolve a name like pc1 to a private IP address. How do I set HTTP Strict Transport Security? That is not a setting that is supported on OpenVPN Access Server. It is also not necessary. HTTP Strict Transport Security or HSTS is a web security option which helps to protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking by telling the web browser or other web based client to only interact with the web server using a secure HTTPS connection and not to use the insecure HTTP protocol. The HSTS Policy can be communicated by the server to the web browser via an HTTPS response header field named Strict-Transport-Security. Since OpenVPN Access Server only has HTTPS, and does not do HTTP at all, then declaring that the client should use HTTPS is superfluous. Also, HSTS is designed to prevent you from overriding an invalid SSL certificate. Since the Access Server comes with a self-signed certificate by default, and if you haven't yet replaced it with a valid SSL certificate, then enabling HSTS would mean effectively blocking access to your Access Server ...