Unable to connect any more - help please

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juandedm
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Re: Unable to connect any more - help please

Post by juandedm » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:59 am

Same here, running Linux Mint. Just updated openvpn to fix DOS vulnerability and cannot connect since then.

Taylor82
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Re: Unable to connect any more - help please

Post by Taylor82 » Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:12 pm

None OpenVPN Config file not working. :(

AlecsMKD
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Re: Unable to connect any more - help please

Post by AlecsMKD » Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:47 pm

Same problem :( what's heppen with vpngate servers...?
Platform: Windows XP > NMDVPN
I use vpngate to bypass Vodafone bandwith control, but now isn't working anymore..
Fri Dec 05 22:32:10 2014 NMDVPN 2.1.4 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Apr 25 2011
Fri Dec 05 22:32:10 2014 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Fri Dec 05 22:32:10 2014 NOTE: NMDVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1559 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Socket Buffers: R=[1048576->1048576] S=[49152->49152]
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1559 D:1450 EF:59 EB:4 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '30065675'
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '37840390'
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Attempting to establish TCP connection with 193.230.161.231:8080
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 TCP connection established with 193.230.161.231:8080
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Send to HTTP proxy: 'CONNECT vpn263597847.opengw.net:995 HTTP/1.0'
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/528.16 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3.0 like Mac OS X; en-us; compatible; Googlebot/870; U; en) Presto/2.4.15
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 X-Online-Host:live.vodafone.com/
Fri Dec 05 22:32:11 2014 Host:live.vodafone.com/
Fri Dec 05 22:32:12 2014 HTTP proxy returned: 'HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established'
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: 193.230.161.231:8080
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 Connection reset, restarting [0]
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 TCP/UDP: Closing socket
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting
Fri Dec 05 22:32:14 2014 Restart pause, 5 second(s)

juandedm
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Re: Unable to connect any more - help please

Post by juandedm » Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:51 am

I've downgraded the latest openvpn update and still cannot connect. The failure to connect does seem to coincide with all connections being made through TCP as others mentioned.

I really does seem odd that all servers are suddenly set to TCP. I don't recall how many openvpn TCP connections were available as I always use UDP for performance reasons. Changing an openvpn server from UDP to TCP requires a restart of the server.

I guess we'll have to wait until an admin steps in with the answers.

Edited: Just found an openvpn udp connection and that works fine (even with the latest openvpn fix).
Also as an additional test, I restarted my own openvpn server in tcp mode and was able to connect just fine (after also changing the firewall settings in router and computer to accept tcp). That rules out any problems with openvpn and tcp connections.

juandedm
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Re: Unable to connect any more - help please

Post by juandedm » Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:13 am

Deborah123,

I assume you're using OpenVPN? Download an OpenVPN UDP file, import it into Tunnelblick (following the steps) and you should be good to go.

I don't have a Mac and I'm using Linux and cannot connect using TCP files. Since OS X is based on BSD (Unix) you might have the same problem and might need to use UDP files.

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