By Bobys
I have a fresh install of Debian Lamp server, everything works perfectly (Web server, mysql etc). Note: Before I proceed with OpenVPN installation I took a snapshot of my server.
Then I wget the package of OpenVPN and then dpkg -i as their instructions advised.
The first time I installed it I was able to login to the admin panel and do stuff. But i tried to change the hostname in the OpenVPN settings (instead of my IP I set my domain (domain.name.com)) since then I have no access on the Openvpn. I tried to telnet myip 943 and it response with connection refused. I even restored back to the snapshot and proceed with the same steps of installation of OpenVPN and no luck. I dont understand, why this is happening. Even with restoring the server from the snapshot prior the installation did not solve the problem. Any suggestions?
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Hey there,
You may want to make sure that OpenVPN AS is not binding to the Anchor IP that we use for floating IP’s (The Anchor IP will start with a 10 and can be seen when ran ‘ip addr show’).
ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 04:01:be:f0:cb:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 111.222.333.444/18 brd 111.222.333.1 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 10.0.0.5/16 brd 10.0.255.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::601:f01/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
You may want to try to run the following command and choose (1) to bind to all interfaces:
- /usr/local/openvpn_as/bin/ovpn-init
Happy coding,
Jon Schwenn Platform Support Specialist DigitalOcean
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