VPN not responding to anything

jokhm

Hi all

So for some reason, I've chosen to configure my VPS with centos 6 64bit. The purpose of the VPS is to be an openvpn server and also host the odd small web page.
Unfortunately I dont' have much experience at all with running around linux and my time spent going through all the guides and how-tos hasn't yielded much. I suppose this is also because there are so many variations to the openvpn install and each guide appears to tackle one of them, but there's always something off!

Here are a few of them
1) OS (centos 6 x64)
2) VPS running XEN
3) Openvpn running in routing mode (not bridged)

I suppose I can change some of this, but I'm not sure how.

I've currently reached a point where I supposedly have openvpn installed, but my osx client (tunnelblick) attempts to connect without response indefinitely. There appear to be too many reasons why that could happen so I've decided to come here and lay it all out.

The log on the server side doesn't show any issue with starting the vpn server, yet there is zero activity when the client tries to connect.
Perhaps someone here has some good pointers on getting things started?

edit: one other thing. My situation is that I'm trying to organize this set up for myself and a few others in our small community in China. This likely means that I'm restricted to TCP protocol, and a few bizarre ports/MTU. This is after all my experiences configuring from paid VPN providers using openVPN. Other setups like L2tp work kinda, but regardless, since I needed to connect two clients via DD-WRT, there is no choice but to use openVPN. Maybe someone here has better experience with working from China for this kind of stuff. It's a mess nowadays!

john56477

Its now at the stage in China that Openvpn is blocked full stop, dancing around with different ports
no longer works.

The solution is to install stunnel on both openvpn server and client and send the openvpn via stunnel.
https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html

Another way to get openvpn working in China is sending openvpn via a ssh tunnel,

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It is crazy how restrictive they have become..