OpenVPN Not working

[shaneystrummer]

I'm currently living in China and have had no problems connecting with the vpn until recently. The connection goes as far as this and then stops working no matter which city I choose:

Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 OpenVPN 2.1.1 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Apr 21 2010
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 LZO compression initialized
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1542 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 RESOLVE: NOTE: vpn.dfw.witopia.net resolves to 4 addresses, choosing one by random
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1542 D:1450 EF:42 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '41690919'
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '530fdded'
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Fri Mar 18 13:20:05 2011 UDPv4 link remote: 173.234.16.67:1194
Fri Mar 18 13:21:06 2011 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Fri Mar 18 13:21:06 2011 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Fri Mar 18 13:21:06 2011 TCP/UDP: Closing socket
Fri Mar 18 13:21:06 2011 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting

Can anyone help?

[marriott79]

What do you mean by the "city" you choose, and what does your configuration file look like?

I'm going to step out on a limb here and make a few assumptions: It sounds like you're trying to get around the Chinese government's filters by surfing the web through a VPN/proxy server set up in another country. If so, it looks like they've figured out what you're doing, and they're blocking traffic to the domain names / IP addresses of your servers. Otherwise, your servers are down or a firewall is blocking traffic on one end of the connection or the other.

Either way, based on the log excerpt you supplied, it doesn't look like an OpenVPN issue.

[maikcat]

hi there,

you can also try using tcp before you give up..

michael