Big Problems :-(

[fpsdyl]

Hi,

Sorry I'm not sure if you are the right people to ask but I'm really really desperate.

At my company we have about 300 machines scattered all over the country, we needed a solution to get a private network up and running quickly. I did some research and decided OpenVPN was the way to go...

As a test i set up about 10 clients to connect to the server, and everything worked fine, until the server crashed.

So I took today to load a new server (CentOS 5.3) with openVPN etc, I copied my old /etc/openvpn folder with the CA/ config etc. onto the new server, and attempted to run it.
Now all of the clients try to connect but ends with Closing Socket messages. I suspect it's because the host changed.

Know I know I could go onto each of the client machines and remove the relevant entry in known_hosts for the server, and this is fine for the 10 clients currently on the network. But what if we get all 300 clients on the new server, and it crashes again. It will take ages to explain to 300 clients how to remove those entries.

Is there any way that you know of that I can 'remove' the strict host checking?

Please let me know, Thank you!

[george]

I had a similar issue with windows clients after clustering our openvpn servers, (linux). We got around it by adding the float directive to the client config.

[unicornpalash]

send the conf & log file

[Douglas]

As mentioned, please pastebin your configs.