VPN obstacle (clueless)

[dStone]

Thought this to be a good place for this question...

My Qnap TS-453 Pro has the app QVPN on it.
I have a VPN connection... it shows me the public IP address and everything i need.
Then i have my myqnapcloud DDNS setup.

Everything goes through the default gateways, so i've checked all those options within the menu's.

But..... when i ping my DDNS i get my plain IP-address from my ISP (instead of my VPN IP-address) so it is still on the "unsafe" network.


Any ideas are welcome and thanks for reading.

Danny

[schumaku]

DDNS will always update the public IP address from your Internet connection.

Do you expect that incoming connections from the Internet to your NAS will go to the VPN provider - what would require a public IP address for each VPN session on their side what is somewhat unlikely?

[dStone]

DDNS will always update the public IP address from your Internet connection.

Do you expect that incoming connections from the Internet to your NAS will go to the VPN provider - what would require a public IP address for each VPN session on their side what is somewhat unlikely?

Not sure what you mean, but i want to connect my NAS to a VPN service (which i did but only through ISP ip address apparently ).
That way i can connect my phone up through the VPN tunnel.

[dStone]

So i ticked that option from the beginning... still shows the ISP IP-address.

[Kamikaze01]

What is your configuration like?

Traffic come in:
Router (public IP) --> PC or NAS (VPN)

Outgoing Traffic:
01) PC (without VPN) --> Webserver (can see ISP IPs)
02) PC (with VPN) --> Webserver (only see VPN IPs)
03) PC (without VPN but with Proxy) --> NAS (with Proxy-Server and VPN-Client) --> Webserver (can only see VPN IPs)

At home in your own networt, you could only reach your NAS with the intern 192.168.X.X IP Adress.
When ur NAS is connected to a VPN Server and update it's IP at your DDNS Service, than u will get ur VPN IP behind ur domain...

I have a similar Problem here:
viewtopic.php?f=185&t=135930

Hopefully i have understand everything so far. Please don't hesitate to correct me !!