TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds

sdopen

Hey all,

I am getting the following error.

Thu Aug 07 09:41:54 2014 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Thu Aug 07 09:41:54 2014 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed

I am running the openvpn server on my Qnap device. And I am using openvpn portable on windows 7. I setup Qnap to use UPNP to automatically setup port forwarding on my router and verified it creates the rule. I went into windows firewall and allowed the portable openvpn app access to everything.

I then suspected my works firewall was dropping packets to port 1194 and switched to port 8443. I am not sure if that port is blocked as well. That is the next thing I have to discover.

But I wanted to hop on here and ask about the second error "TLS handshake failed". Does that give me any more hints or is that just a result of the first error? Any other insights?

sdopen

I was reading the Qnap instructions for getting the vpn to work (http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?sn=4354) and found this note:

"Note: If the OpenVPN clientis running on Windows 7, add the firewall rules in the advanced settings of OpenVPN."

What exactly does that mean? Is there an advanced settings in the OpenVpn client? I don't think the portable openvpn client has advanced settings. Is it a setting in a config file?

sdopen

Here is the whole log.

Thu Aug 07 10:15:54 2014 OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011
Thu Aug 07 10:16:03 2014 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Thu Aug 07 10:16:03 2014 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Thu Aug 07 10:16:03 2014 LZO compression initialized
Thu Aug 07 10:16:03 2014 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Thu Aug 07 10:16:03 2014 UDPv4 link remote: x.x.x.x:8443
Thu Aug 07 10:17:03 2014 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Thu Aug 07 10:17:03 2014 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Thu Aug 07 10:17:03 2014 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting