Package: openvpn Version: 2.0.5-1 Severity: minor Openvpn fails to bring up the tunnel if the system time goes backwards during negotiation. As this is a very unusual situation, it's probably not critical to fix this, therefore the minor severity.
I noticed this behaviour with a /etc/network/interfaces containing these lines: up /etc/init.d/openvpn start gondor up ntpdate timeserver.rwth-aachen.de || true This, in addition with a bad system time prior to the ifup, causes openvpn to be started and ntpdate to be called shortly thereafter. Ntpdate succeeds to update the system time through the native ethernet interface (tunnel is not yet up). At that point, openvpn seems to stop proceeding on the handshake procedure. The time shift was 2h to the past - perhaps openvpn would continue after waiting 2h, I was not patient enough to wait as long ;-) Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1-dirty Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages openvpn depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.72 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.6-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old vers ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-8 SSL shared libraries openvpn recommends no packages. -- debconf information: openvpn/change_init: true * openvpn/stop2upgrade: false * openvpn/change_init2: true openvpn/create_tun: false openvpn/default_port: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
