Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS+OpenVPN, won't persist

[sdkseusx 0]

Hi all. I'm using a bit of a different setup. I want to be using AirVPN at all times on my Linux box. Unfortunately OpenVPN will not cooperate.

/etc/issue

Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l

/etc/openvpn/airvpn.conf

remote 69.163.36.66 443
proto tcp
client
ca /etc/openvpn/certs/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/certs/client.crt
key /etc/openvpn/certs/client.key
down /etc/openvpn/scripts/downscript.sh
up /etc/openvpn/scripts/upscript.sh
dev tun
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ns-cert-type server
cipher AES-256-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 3
keepalive 5 30

/etc/openvpn/scripts/downscript.sh

#!/bin/bash
logger OpenVPN tunnel DOWN: Device=[$1] TunMTU=[$2] LinkMTU=[$3] LocalIP=[$4] RemoteIPOrNetmask=[$5] Call=[$6]
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -d 69.163.36.66    -p udp -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -d 69.163.36.66    -p tdp -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT  -s 69.163.36.66    -p ucp -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT  -s 69.163.36.66    -p tcp -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p udp -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT REJECT
iptables -I OUTPUT REJECT
sleep 15s
service openvpn restart

/etc/openvpn/scripts/upscript.sh

#!/bin/bash
logger OpenVPN tunnel UP: Device=[$1] TunMTU=[$2] LinkMTU=[$3] LocalIP=[$4] RemoteIPOrNetmask=[$5] Call=[$6]
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp
iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p udp
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -p udp
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p tcp --destination-port 139
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p tcp --destination-port 445
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p tcp --destination-port 631
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p udp --destination-port 139
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p udp --destination-port 445
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p udp --destination-port 631
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p tcp --destination-port 5800
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT -p tcp --destination-port 5900
/usr/sbin/ddclient -syslog -use=web

Problem is, it just... drops out. Doesn't reconnect despite my down directive to restart the service. I used to have it ping out once every 5 minutes, and after any failure, reboot. That got annoying fast. Any ideas? I don't want tun0 to drop and leave me exposed without notice.

Note - not using networkmanager because it always seems to cause more problems than it's worth. Just straight openvpn.

[Staff 9972]

Hello!

Please check your iptables rules. In the downscript.sh the line "iptables -I OUTPUT -d 69.163.36.66 -p tdp -j ACCEPT" is wrong (replace "tdp" with "tcp").

Furthermore, apparently no proper masquerading is foreseen in your rules.

Please compare your rules with:

https://airvpn.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=3&id=1713&limit=6&limitstart=30&Itemid=142#2010

Once you have fixed iptables, please send us the connection logs. Also, please try different servers.

Kind regards

[sdkseusx 0]

I've not yet tried another server, about to try one now. Here's the tail of my daemon.log showing drops.

Jul 23 13:26:53 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Socket Buffers: R=[87380->131072] S=[16384->131072]

Jul 23 13:26:53 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:1450 EF:60 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]

Jul 23 13:26:53 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Local Options hash (VER=V4): '958c5492'

Jul 23 13:26:53 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '79ef4284'

Jul 23 13:26:53 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443 [nonblock]

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: TCP connection established with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443, sid=f1750e67 904f9dae

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=airvpn.org_CA/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER

Jul 23 13:26:54 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: VERIFY OK: depth=0, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=server/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA

Jul 23 13:26:57 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: [server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:26:59 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: AUTH: Received AUTH_FAILED control message

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: TCP/UDP: Closing socket

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /sbin/route del -net 10.5.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /sbin/route del -net 69.163.36.66 netmask 255.255.255.255

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /sbin/route del -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 128.0.0.0

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /sbin/route del -net 128.0.0.0 netmask 128.0.0.0

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: Closing TUN/TAP interface

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 0.0.0.0

Jul 23 13:27:00 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: /etc/openvpn/scripts/downscript.sh tun0 1500 1560 10.5.3.6 10.5.3.5 init

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: OpenVPN 2.1.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [sSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Mar 29 2011

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: /usr/bin/openssl-vulnkey -q -b 2048 -m <modulus omitted>

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: LZO compression initialized

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: Socket Buffers: R=[87380->131072] S=[16384->131072]

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:1450 EF:60 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: Local Options hash (VER=V4): '958c5492'

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21031]: Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '79ef4284'

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443 [nonblock]

Jul 23 13:27:17 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[20845]: SIGTERM[soft,auth-failure] received, process exiting

Jul 23 13:27:18 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: TCP connection established with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:27:18 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]

Jul 23 13:27:18 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:27:18 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443, sid=9c3ea07e 31f37e01

Jul 23 13:27:19 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=airvpn.org_CA/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

Jul 23 13:27:19 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER

Jul 23 13:27:19 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: VERIFY OK: depth=0, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=server/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA

Jul 23 13:27:20 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: [server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]69.163.36.66:443

Jul 23 13:27:23 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)

Jul 23 13:27:23 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: AUTH: Received AUTH_FAILED control message

Jul 23 13:27:23 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: TCP/UDP: Closing socket

Jul 23 13:27:23 vpnbox ovpn-airvpn[21033]: SIGTERM[soft,auth-failure] received, process exiting

It never came back from that drop, never called my downscript back, etc. I'm about to reboot that box, and test at another server now.