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http://serverfault.com – I recently installed OpenVPN on my Ubuntu VPS. Whenenver I try to connect to it, I can establish a connection just fine. However, everything I try to to times out. If I try to ping something, it will resolve the IP, but will time out after resolving the IP. My server.conf has this relevant information (At least I think it's relevant. I'm not sure if you need more or not) # Which local IP address should OpenVPN # listen on? (optional) ;local a.b.c.d # Which TCP/UDP port should OpenVPN listen on? # If you want to run multiple OpenVPN instances # on the same machine, use a different port # nu (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 12/13/2012 – Made popular on 12/13/2012

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