ANSWERED iOS: 'Waiting for server' Network Manager applet: 'Connection attempt timed out'

[liongrass 0]

Dear AirVPN crowd,

 

When connecting to your servers using the OpenVPN app in iOS 7 (also happened in iOS 6) I frequently get 'Connection timeout' errors. When initiating the connection it first reads 'Looking up DNS name' and later 'Waiting for server'. It is common for the service to be stuck on either step to the frequency where the service becomes almost useless to me.

 

When connecting using the Ubuntu network-manager applet I also get a lot of timeout errors, and since switching to a new computer today (still running Ubuntu 13.04) I havn't been able to get a single connection except for to 'United States' which consistently works while the others (eg Singapore, Earth, Italy) don't work.

 

 

Log:

 

 

Oct  5 23:58:51 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988731.71531] [nm-settings-connection.c:1523] nm_settings_connection_read_and_fill_timestamp(): failed to read connection timestamp for 'b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6': (3) Key file does not have key 'b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6'

Oct  5 23:58:51 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988731.71961] [nm-agent-manager.c:1187] nm_agent_manager_save_secrets(): Saving secrets for connection /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/10

Oct  5 23:58:51 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988731.71995] [nm-agent-manager.c:577] request_add_agent(): (:1.55/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000) agent allowed for secrets request 0xc0c660/(null)

Oct  5 23:58:51 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988731.72071] [nm-agent-manager.c:652] next_generic(): (:1.55/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000) agent saving secrets for request 0xc0c660/(null)

Oct  5 23:58:51 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988731.73479] [nm-agent-manager.c:1133] save_done_cb(): (:1.55/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000) agent saved secrets for request 0xc0c660/(null)

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 4567

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305311] [nm-vpn-connection.c:1413] get_secrets(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443) requesting VPN secrets pass #1

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305402] [nm-agent-manager.c:1058] nm_agent_manager_get_secrets(): Secrets requested for connection /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/10 (vpn)

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305422] [nm-settings-connection.c:864] nm_settings_connection_get_secrets(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/vpn:19) secrets requested flags 0x80000004 hint '(null)'

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305762] [nm-agent-manager.c:973] get_start(): (0xc005f0/vpn) system settings secrets sufficient

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305798] [nm-settings-connection.c:721] agent_secrets_done_cb(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/vpn:19) existing secrets returned

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.305809] [nm-settings-connection.c:727] agent_secrets_done_cb(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/vpn:19) secrets request completed

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.306425] [nm-settings-connection.c:767] agent_secrets_done_cb(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/vpn:19) new agent secrets processed

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.306460] [nm-vpn-connection.c:1379] get_secrets_cb(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443) asking service if additional secrets are required

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: init (1)

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988739.311893] [nm-vpn-connection.c:1349] plugin_need_secrets_cb(): (b5befcbd-c595-4345-be7b-a1db6b9244d6/AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443) service indicated no additional secrets required

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN connection 'AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443' (Connect) reply received.

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: OpenVPN 2.2.1 x86_64-linux-gnu [sSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [iPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Feb 13 2013

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: WARNING: file '/home/kaytsai/.airvpn/user.key' is group or others accessible

Oct  5 23:58:59 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: LZO compression initialized

Oct  5 23:59:00 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]

Oct  5 23:59:00 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]67.215.66.132:443

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <warn> VPN connection 'AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443' (IP Config Get) timeout exceeded.

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858202] [nm-dns-manager.c:1017] nm_dns_manager_begin_updates(): (vpn_connection_deactivated): queueing DNS updates (1)

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858216] [nm-dns-manager.c:1017] nm_dns_manager_begin_updates(): (update_routing_and_dns): queueing DNS updates (2)

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> Policy set 'Wired connection 1' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858363] [nm-dns-manager.c:1035] nm_dns_manager_end_updates(): (nm_dns_manager_end_updates): DNS configuration did not change

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858383] [nm-dns-manager.c:1039] nm_dns_manager_end_updates(): (update_routing_and_dns): no DNS changes to commit (1)

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858407] [nm-dns-manager.c:1035] nm_dns_manager_end_updates(): (nm_dns_manager_end_updates): DNS configuration did not change

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858426] [nm-dns-manager.c:1039] nm_dns_manager_end_updates(): (vpn_connection_deactivated): no DNS changes to commit (0)

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <debug> [1380988779.858448] [nm-policy.c:1008] process_secondaries(): Secondary connection 'AirVPN_All servers_UDP-443' FAILED; active path '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/10'

Oct  5 23:59:39 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting

Oct  5 23:59:44 kaytsai NetworkManager[1317]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' disappeared

[Staff 10014]

Hello!

 

The problem is caused by OpenDNS:

 

Oct  5 23:59:00 kaytsai nm-openvpn[4570]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]67.215.66.132:443

 

67.215.66.132 is the server IP address to which OpenDNS hijacks our *.airdns.org names, as if they did not exist.

 

Please see here for more information and quick solutions:

 

https://airvpn.org/topic/10000-connection-timeout/?do=findComment&comment=12480

 

Kind regards