26 Sep
2015
26 Sep
'15
9:21 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:14:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Incidentally, and not meant as a criticism for you as
clearly you
knew how to debug this: the notifications about enforced reboots
suggest that you reboot your VPS yourself to check it boots cleanly.
This is an example of why that can be useful, as it might be good to
discover that (for example) your VPN doesn't work at a time when
you're ready to debug it as opposed to at some random other time. :)
That's very good advice although I'm not sure if I'd have remembered to
check OpenVPN - I don't use it often.
I'm not a recent user of openvpn but I suspect the
restart of it was
not necessary: the other things cause packets to be dropped by
either the kernel's routing table or by the kernel's IP filtering,
so probably just they alone caused things to not work.
True. But it probably doesn't hurt and part of the reason for writing
my post is to let others know about what caused this, especially after I
spent some time trying to change every possible OpenVPN setting.
(That was also the reason to not spend a few minutes searching the
Internet for the answer to this question.)
Anyway, thanks to you and others for your quick responses!
Martijn.