Why can't I access social media despite successful OpenVPN?

houmie

I am currently in Iran, where all social media's are censored.

I have setup a OpenVPN server in London and can successfully connect to it. Hence I can access news websites that would have been forbidden otherwise. However for some strange reason, I can't access any social media despite an OpenVPN connection (self signed SSL certificate).

What could I be missing? This is my config:

dev tun
tls-client
remote xxx.xxx.xx 3xxx
redirect-gateway
pull
script-security 2
ca ca.crt
comp-lzo
reneg-sec 0
auth-user-pass

Many Thanks for your help,
H.

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Specifically, which social media sites .. what error do you get ?

AFAIK .. most social media sites do not ban IPs if they detect a VPN as it increases their market share ..

I can use all general social media over my VPN: Facebook google+ myspace deviantart .. etc

Please post server config.

houmie

Thanks for reply.

Social media sites such as facebook, twitter, youtube aren't accessible via my MacBook despite OpenVPN.
I use the exact same OpenVPN server on my iPhone and I *can* access facebook easily. It must be the way I have setup tunnel blick on MacBook Pro as I posted above.

Nonetheless here is the server.conf. Hope it helps:

server_port="514"
server_trans="udp"
server_ssl="0"
server_ietf_port="514"
server_ietf_trans="udp"
server_ietf_ssl="0"
server_log_rotate_time="0"
server_enable_mail="1"
server_mail_filter="emerg"
server_mail_interval=60
server_db_loc=""
server_db_path=""
server_ca_key="/usr/syno/etc/synosyslog/keys/ca.key"
server_ca_file="/usr/syno/etc/synosyslog/keys/ca.crt"
server_starttime=""
max_log_file_size=2000
max_log_file_count=5
server_internal_filter="emerg,alert,crit,err"
arch_time="2592000"
arch_size="1024"
arch_count="10000000"
arch_time_enable="0"
arch_count_enable="0"
arch_fmt="db"
arch_compress=""
arch_by_device=""
arch_dest=""
arch_last_time=""
system_flush_line=""
system_flush_timeout=""

Thanks,

Traffic

Server:

houmie wroteCode:
server_port="514"

Client:

houmie wroteCode:
...
remote xxx.xxx.xx 3xxx

Looks like you will not be able to connect at all with these settings.

houmie

Not sure what those settings mean, but I can connect.

I finally found the solution in TunnelBlick user groups. Someone suggested to change the DNS server to OpenDNS for the WIFi connection.

Since I changed it, all sites such as facebook, youtube work now when connected via my OpenVPN server. It seems though that the server is not pushing the DNS server name to the connected devices, hence I was falling back to the local Iranian DNS servers and they seem to not resolve the DNS for the social media sites.

Now everything works smoothly.
Many thanks for help though,

Regards,
H.

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houmie wroteI was falling back to the local Iranian DNS servers and they seem to not resolve the DNS for the social media sites

Thanks for letting us know .. 8-)

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