“Enterprise and BYOD users beware – upgrading to iOS 9 can break your ability to access VPNs,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet. “The symptoms are pretty straightforward – you upgrade to iOS 9 and are then you find that you are no longer able to connect to some servers over VPN because of failed DNS resolutions.”
“Internal connections to servers from corporate networks are unaffected,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “The current beta release of iOS 9.1 is also affected.”
“If you’ve upgraded to iOS 9 and you can’t wait for Apple to fix this issue then your only hope is to roll back to iOS 8.4.1. But there’s a catch – you can only do this if you made a backup of your device via iTunes (not iCloud) before carrying out the upgrade,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “If it has been purged, or you didn’t make a backup before you upgraded, then you can download the applicable file from Apple (links available in full article), but bear in mind that your device will be factory reset if you use this file.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully everyone affected has either backed up to iTunes or can forgo VPN access until Apple issues the fix which will hopefully be coming very soon!