On 23/02/2023 09:04, Bo Berglund wrote:
I am running an Ubuntu 20.04.5 server on a remote LAN for hosting the OpenVPN
service.
This has been working for many years, but yesterday something happened that
broke the remote connections and I am trying to figure out what is the problem.
Luckily I have set up a secondary OpenVPN server too on the LAN for maintenance
connections when the Linux main server needs to be updated. So I am still able
to access the LAN via that VPN.
With that I have have connected using SSH to the server command line to check
the state and I have also rebooted the main OpenVPN server to no avail.
On the server side the status of the two services report this using the status
command (only showing the full web service but both look the same):
Status?
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$ sudo systemctl status openvpn-server@serverweb
? openvpn-server@serverweb.service - OpenVPN service for serverweb
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-02-22 11:57:51 CST; 13h ago
Docs: man:openvpn(8)
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn24ManPage
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HOWTO
Main PID: 927 (openvpn)
Status: "Initialization Sequence Completed"
Tasks: 1 (limit: 1066)
Memory: 2.1M
CGroup:
/system.slice/system-openvpn\x2dserver.slice/openvpn-server@serverweb.service
+-927 /usr/sbin/openvpn --status
/run/openvpn-server/status-serverweb.log --status-version 2
--suppress-timestamps ->
Feb 22 11:57:48 vpnserver systemd[1]: Starting OpenVPN service for serverweb...
Feb 22 11:57:51 vpnserver systemd[1]: Started OpenVPN service for serverweb.
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Is the OpenVpn service OK?
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$ sudo journalctl -u openvpn-server@serverweb
-- Logs begin at Tue 2023-02-07 22:40:22 CST, end at Thu 2023-02-23 01:33:48
CST. --
Feb 19 14:43:12 vpnserver systemd[1]: Starting OpenVPN service for serverweb...
Feb 19 14:43:14 vpnserver systemd[1]: Started OpenVPN service for serverweb.
Feb 22 11:56:51 vpnserver systemd[1]: Stopping OpenVPN service for serverweb...
Feb 22 11:56:53 vpnserver systemd[1]: openvpn-server@serverweb.service:
Succeeded.
Feb 22 11:56:53 vpnserver systemd[1]: Stopped OpenVPN service for serverweb.
-- Reboot --
Feb 22 11:57:48 vpnserver systemd[1]: Starting OpenVPN service for serverweb...
Feb 22 11:57:51 vpnserver systemd[1]: Started OpenVPN service for serverweb.
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I would have expected more log details here if there are attempts
connecting to the server. Do you have any --log or --log-append options
in your configurations? That will override the systemd journal logging.
And in that case you need to check the designated log files instead.
If your current configurations have one of these options, I would
recommend to remove them.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Inc
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