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VPN Connection Problems

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:16 pm
by widmark
I am unable to connect to my recently configured VPN Server with OpenVPN. I configured openvpn.ovpn file to connect using the dynamic public IP address assigned by my ISP (TimeWarner Cable) to my router (172.XXX.XXX.XXX). I am using the config and ca certificate files generated by my VPN server (Synology DiskStation - Linux based). I opened port 1194 on my router. I am on Windows 7.

What am I doing wrong? Please help. Below is the info provided by OpenVPN's dialogue box after attempting to connect. I have tried various IP addresses (internal subnets 10.X.X.X and 192.168.X.X) and all have the same result.

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Thu Apr 12 09:16:56 2012 OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 LZO compression initialized
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Thu Apr 12 09:17:00 2012 UDPv4 link remote: 172.XXX.XXX.XXX:1194
Thu Apr 12 09:18:00 2012 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Thu Apr 12 09:18:00 2012 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Thu Apr 12 09:18:00 2012 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting

Re: VPN Connection Problems

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:31 pm
by widmark
Issue resolved. Port 1194 was still blocked by the firewall on the NAS/VPN Server.