jacqi wrote
openvpn_inc wrote
No, unfortunately we cannot. What's happening is that you're not getting any replies to your attempts to connect. There could be lots of reasons for that. Your best chance of getting help with this is to check with your server administrator. Make sure you're using all the correct settings (such as --remote) to connect. Maybe 75.83.18.232 is out of service for some reason? Just one of many possible guesses.
Good luck and best regards, rob0
Thanks for your reply! can you clarify what is remote 75.83.18.232? I recently changed my WAN connection. does that mean my remote changed? how can I stop preserving recent used remote address?
If your configuration file has a name for the "remote" line (or lines) then that name is resolved when OpenVPN Connect starts. If you exit/kill the program, the name will be resolved again when you start it again. But!! DNS is cached, both locally by Windows and upstream by one or more recursive nameservers.
I'm very rusty on Windows, but I recall that at a command prompt, this:
ipconfig /flushdns
would flush your own caching of DNS names. As for the upstream servers, you might not have a way to do that.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" -- this would actually work for your computer and your router. But there could still be caching upstream from there!
Still, it seems your best bet is to ask your server admin for help. They can know what --remote lines you should have. One thing I must add, however: if the server is Access Server or OpenVPN Cloud, please open a ticket at
https://openvpn.net/support/ for support. (You or your server administrator could do that.)
So sorry you're having issues. I do hope this is helpful.
Regards, rob0
