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tekcap
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Stop Preserving Remote Address

Post by tekcap » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:08 am

I can't figure out how to stop this from happening every time I try to connect using OpenVPN client on Linux (Debian)

TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]x.x.x.x:1198

I do not want to preserve this address. I want my client to request the server for a new ip address each time. It seems to do that in windows, but not in Linux.

What can I do to stop this from happening?

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Re: Stop Preserving Remote Address

Post by TinCanTech » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:38 am

Openvpn is referring to your DNS cache.

If you absolutely want to get rid of this informative message
then you will have to wait a very long, long time, indeed.

tekcap
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Re: Stop Preserving Remote Address

Post by tekcap » Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:46 pm

TinCanTech wrote:
Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:38 am
Openvpn is referring to your DNS cache.

If you absolutely want to get rid of this informative message
then you will have to wait a very long, long time, indeed.
Thanks for the heads up, I guess that I'll give up on this for now.

I'm trying to make my own kill switch in linux and I went through the trouble of manually modifying all the routes in my routing table.

First thing I do is delete the route which allows me to get out to the Internet

route del -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0

Then I went and found the IP Address of the VPN server and manually allowed that route

route add -net x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.2.1 metric 1024 ens33 (x.x.x.x is the IP address of the vpn server)

Now when I do this in Windows, it manages to connect, but in Linux I need to have a route for my own VPN IP address and that's really annoying.

route add -net x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.2.1 metric 1024 ens33 (x.x.x.x is my IP address provided by vpn server)

This seems to be because OpenVpn is caching it instead of contacting the server for a new one

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Re: Stop Preserving Remote Address

Post by openvpn_inc » Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:12 pm

tekcap wrote:
Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:08 am
I can't figure out how to stop this from happening every time I try to connect using OpenVPN client on Linux (Debian)

TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]x.x.x.x:1198

I do not want to preserve this address. I want my client to request the server for a new ip address each time. It seems to do that in windows, but not in Linux.

What can I do to stop this from happening?
Hi tek,

Are you not using --persist-remote-ip in your configuration?

regards, rob0
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