I have an openVPN server listening on the normal port, and I'm trying to use TunnelBlick to connect to the server from my apple laptop. When I was in the local network I was able to successfully connect to the server, but away from home I cannot connect to the server with TunnelBlick. I just get "Waiting for server response..." and a timer.
My server config is:
local 192.168.1.139
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
sndbuf 0
rcvbuf 0
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh.pem
tls-auth ta.key 0
topology subnet
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4"
keepalive 10 120
cipher AES-256-CBC
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
crl-verify crl.pem
That IP is port forwarded in my router, and I can see that my client is trying to connect to the server with iftop on the server, so I think that openVPN is not accepting the connection? I have tried to google my issue and I haven't found anything relevant. I am new to openVPN and would like to get this figured out if possible.
verb 4for more details in the logs. If you aren't seeing anything in the lots at all on the server, that probably means there is a firewall issue. Either on your host, or the router.