Help with remote connection

[ITGuy401]

attempted to setup remote access for my unraid server via openvpn, I have followed spaceinvaderone's tutorial and setup duckdns (docker) as well as forwarded port 1194 on my verizon issued router. I am getting the following error in my log.


2018-07-15 12:57:19 WARNING: --ns-cert-type is DEPRECATED. Use --remote-cert-tls instead.
2018-07-15 12:57:19 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
2018-07-15 12:57:19 Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file
2018-07-15 12:57:19 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:19 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:19 Socket Buffers: R=[196724->100000] S=[9216->100000]
2018-07-15 12:57:19 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673839,RESOLVE,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:19 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
2018-07-15 12:57:19 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]173.53.9.20:1194
2018-07-15 12:57:19 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673839,WAIT,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:19 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Server poll timeout, restarting
2018-07-15 12:57:23 SIGUSR1[soft,server_poll] received, process restarting
2018-07-15 12:57:23 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673843,RECONNECTING,server_poll,,
2018-07-15 12:57:23 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
2018-07-15 12:57:23 WARNING: --ns-cert-type is DEPRECATED. Use --remote-cert-tls instead.
2018-07-15 12:57:23 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Socket Buffers: R=[131072->100000] S=[131072->100000]
2018-07-15 12:57:23 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673843,RESOLVE,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:23 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]173.53.9.20:1194 [nonblock]
2018-07-15 12:57:23 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673843,TCP_CONNECT,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:23 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
2018-07-15 12:57:33 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]173.53.9.20:1194 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: Operation timed out
2018-07-15 12:57:33 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
2018-07-15 12:57:33 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673853,RECONNECTING,init_instance,,
2018-07-15 12:57:33 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
2018-07-15 12:57:33 WARNING: --ns-cert-type is DEPRECATED. Use --remote-cert-tls instead.
2018-07-15 12:57:33 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
2018-07-15 12:57:33 Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file
2018-07-15 12:57:33 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:33 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
2018-07-15 12:57:33 Socket Buffers: R=[196724->100000] S=[9216->100000]
2018-07-15 12:57:33 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673853,RESOLVE,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:33 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
2018-07-15 12:57:33 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]173.53.9.20:1194
2018-07-15 12:57:33 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673853,WAIT,,,
2018-07-15 12:57:33 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
2018-07-15 12:57:36 *Tunnelblick: Disconnecting; VPN Details… window disconnect button pressed
2018-07-15 12:57:36 *Tunnelblick: No 'pre-disconnect.sh' script to execute
2018-07-15 12:57:36 *Tunnelblick: Disconnecting using 'kill'
2018-07-15 12:57:36 event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
2018-07-15 12:57:36 SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting
2018-07-15 12:57:36 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1531673856,EXITING,SIGTERM,,
2018-07-15 12:57:38 *Tunnelblick: No 'post-disconnect.sh' script to execute
2018-07-15 12:57:38 *Tunnelblick: Expected disconnection occurred.