Re: [Openvpn-users] Geography issues

2020-05-26 Thread Antonio Quartulli
Hi Doctor, On 26/05/2020 20:11, The Doctor via Openvpn-users wrote: > Just testing out a site, but it gave us the wrong city > and province. > > Wonder if this issue can be resolved by telling the client which region to > resolve to. > What's the connection between your statement and the Open

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Morris, Russell
Good suggestion, thanks Selva! I get exactly two duplicated messages (same timing and everything). Let me dig into that … but it does seem that the client-connect approach will work. Appreciate the pointers! … Russell From: Selva Nair Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 8:02 PM To: Morris, Russell

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, Try this: from a command line run $ /usr/bin/logger -t test some message If that generates two messages you know its not openvpn but the syslog setup. May be something not right in (r)syslog.conf, rsyslog.conf.d/* etc? logger defaults to user.notice so you may want to try it with -p option to

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Morris, Russell
You may be on to something ... 😊. I'm not running journald though (I don't think ... just checked via ps, not seeing it a least). I did try something, based on your comments. I created a short script (below), configured OpenVPN up to call it (on client-connect), #!/bin/sh echo "`date` OpenVPN

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Selva Nair
Hi On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:28 PM Morris, Russell wrote: > > It's possible, I won't say it's not ... LOL. FYI, all I did was add this to > the server config file (for testing for now), > client-connect "/usr/bin/logger -t openvpn client connect successful" > > And then I monitored network traff

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Morris, Russell
It's possible, I won't say it's not ... LOL. FYI, all I did was add this to the server config file (for testing for now), client-connect "/usr/bin/logger -t openvpn client connect successful" And then I monitored network traffic ... tcpdump on the (syslog) sender and receiver end. I see the doub

[Openvpn-users] Geography issues

2020-05-26 Thread The Doctor via Openvpn-users
Just testing out a site, but it gave us the wrong city and province. Wonder if this issue can be resolved by telling the client which region to resolve to. -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread David Sommerseth
On 26/05/2020 14:48, Morris, Russell wrote: > [...] it does trigger, but the message seems to be sent more than once? Not > sure why, still working through that. But I did confirm, the double send is > happening on the sending end (i.e. not the remote syslog). Could it be that your script both p

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread Morris, Russell
Hi, Thanks very much! It's funny, but I was actually trying exactly this last night, just hadn't reported back as I was seeing one oddity with it ... it does trigger, but the message seems to be sent more than once? Not sure why, still working through that. But I did confirm, the double send is

Re: [Openvpn-users] syslog, drop Port Sharing Messages

2020-05-26 Thread David Sommerseth
On 26/05/2020 03:28, Morris, Russell wrote: > BTW, one other minor question ... is there a particular message (from syslog) > to check for, to know when a connection does in fact happen? It seems like > this may be the best option? >> ACCT/IP:PORT MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=192.168.xxx.xxx, IP