Re: [Openvpn-users] Clarification of "remote-random-hostname"

2021-01-11 Thread Davide Brini
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:07:28 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > From the man page: > > --remote-random-hostname > > Prepend a random string (6 bytes, 12 hex characters) to hostname to > prevent DNS caching. For example, "foo.bar.gov" would be modified to > ".foo.bar.gov". > > How is that supposed t

Re: [Openvpn-users] expiry date CA

2014-01-30 Thread Davide Brini
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:00:26 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > I want to find out when my CA expires, how do I do that. I cannot see any > readable info by just looking at the ca.key or the ca.crt Which command > will let me see that info? Which command will let me see when the client > cert

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-17 Thread Davide Brini
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:14:39 -0400, "Sumit Dahiya" wrote: > I agree there is no such thing as 100% security. Therefore, I am trying to > make my VPN users as less vulnerable as possible. > > If I do not use the "redirect gateway" parameter then users would be > relying on target website's SSL i

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN with auth-user-pass disconnects after 1hr

2013-10-13 Thread Davide Brini
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:17:00 +1300, Michael Ludvig wrote: > On 13/10/13 06:03, Davide Brini wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:26:45 +1300, Michael Ludvig > > wrote: > > > >> Tue Oct 8 23:08:40 2013 Initialization Sequence Completed > >> Wed Oct 9 00

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN with auth-user-pass disconnects after 1hr

2013-10-12 Thread Davide Brini
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:26:45 +1300, Michael Ludvig wrote: > Hi > > we use OpenVPN 2.3.2 without client certificate and with auth-user-pass > instead. What we observe is that the connection always drops pretty much > exactly after 1 hour, regardless of whether any traffic flows through or > not.

Re: [Openvpn-users] It's not broken - but I want to fix it

2013-09-26 Thread Davide Brini
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:51:57 -0700, Daniel Miller wrote: > First - please confirm my assumption. Client connecting from whatever > his own internal LAN/external internet IP address, but has a routed VPN > IP assigned. Through the magic of IP, the client reaches my server-side > router. The

Re: [Openvpn-users] Limit of 256 clients in tap mode?

2013-08-19 Thread Davide Brini
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:51:18 +0200, Peter Warasin wrote: > Hi Davide > > On 08/19/2013 07:25 PM, Davide Brini wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:10:39 +0200, Peter Warasin > > wrote: > >> Can someone help me and tell me if here's really a hardcoded limit? &

Re: [Openvpn-users] Limit of 256 clients in tap mode?

2013-08-19 Thread Davide Brini
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:10:39 +0200, Peter Warasin wrote: > Hi List > > I have an openvpn server running as tls-server and using a tap device. > (not tun). > version is 2.3.0 on linux. > > When I connect more than 256 clients (300 clients in my case) all > clients can connect but I can ping only

Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn, local routing and linux kernel routing table

2013-06-04 Thread Davide Brini
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:26:33 +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:19:38AM +0200, wen lui wrote: > > from this article?? > > http://backreference.org/2010/03/26/tuntap-interface-tutorial/ > > the author created a tun interface > > What exactly are you trying to achieve?