[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#523180: openssl: Some OpenVPNs conn not working with nm-applet after dist-upgrade

Andreas Pflug pgadmin at pse-consulting.de
Wed Apr 8 20:32:59 UTC 2009


Package: openssl
Version: 0.9.8g-15+lenny1
Severity: normal


After an apt-get dist-upgrade of my Debian-5-amd64 system which updated
the openssl libs, one specific OpenVPN connection won't connect any more
using nm-applet 0.6.6 ("Could not connect to VPN server"), a second VPN
conn still works ok.
I checked the vpn server using ping. ping showed connectivity, but it
had a ~5 second delay between packets, obviously from trying to resolve
the reverse dns; ping -n lets the tool behave as I know it (and as it
still works on all other 5.0-stable systems).
With this diagnosis, it might be that a missing reverse dns makes the
connection fail; the working OpenVPN connection as a valid reverse dns
PTR, the failing one has not.

Next, I checked "openvpn <cfgFile>" directly, and now the connection
*does* start. Which leaves me totally confused now.

Since only libssl was updated (and libicu38, which appears
non-suspicious to me), I'm reporting this bug as openssl-related.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash






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