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grongor
Asked: 2013-04-26 06:44:15 +0800 CST

SSH through OpenVPN on iPhone

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I have problem with connecting to my SSH server through OpenVPN from my iPhone.

I can successfully connect from my PC so all settings are good. OpenVPN also works well ("connected") - I can see VPN icon in the top right corner.

The problem is with SSH - I cannot even ping to the local address. When I tried to trace 10.0.1.1 (server IP on VPN) it goes through some to me now known IP addresses and then just times out. It looks like to me that applications are ignoring the VPN and they are trying to reach the address 10.0.1.1 through "normal" network.

Application which I'm using: OpenVPN, Scany (ping & trace) and iSSH.

Does someone have similiar problem? Do you have any idea what I can try to do to make it work?Thank you for your time.

EDIT - here is the log generated by OpenVPN on iPhone:

2013-05-03 15:59:33 ----- OpenVPN Start -----
2013-05-03 15:59:33 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=0
2013-05-03 15:59:33 EVENT: RESOLVE
2013-05-03 15:59:33 EVENT: WAIT
2013-05-03 15:59:33 Connecting to artworksmedia.cz:1194
(37.157.197.197) via TCPv4
2013-05-03 15:59:33 EVENT: CONNECTING
2013-05-03 15:59:33 Tunnel Options:V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu
1544,tun-mtu 1500,proto TCPv4_CLIENT,comp-lzo,keydir 1,cipher
BF-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,key-method 2,tls-client
2013-05-03 15:59:33 Peer Info:
IV_VER=1.0
IV_PLAT=ios
IV_NCP=1
IV_LZO=1

2013-05-03 15:59:34 VERIFY OK: depth=0
cert. version : 3
serial number : 01
issuer name  : C=CZ, ST=Czech Republic, L=Varnsdorf, O=Artworks Media,
CN=Artworks Media, 0x29=Artworks Media,
[email protected]
subject name  : C=CZ, ST=Czech republic, L=Varnsdorf, O=Artworks
Media, CN=Artworks Media, 0x29=Artworks Media,
[email protected]
issued  on    : 2012-09-16 10:02:24
expires on    : 2022-09-14 10:02:24
signed using  : RSA+SHA1
RSA key size  : 1024 bits

2013-05-03 15:59:34 VERIFY OK: depth=1
cert. version : 3
serial number : D5:00:96:A7:C3:3A:79:3D
issuer name  : C=CZ, ST=Czech Republic, L=Varnsdorf, O=Artworks Media,
CN=Artworks Media, 0x29=Artworks Media,
[email protected]
subject name  : C=CZ, ST=Czech Republic, L=Varnsdorf, O=Artworks
Media, CN=Artworks Media, 0x29=Artworks Media,
[email protected]
issued  on    : 2012-09-16 10:00:40
expires on    : 2022-09-14 10:00:40
signed using  : RSA+SHA1
RSA key size  : 1024 bits

2013-05-03 15:59:34 SSL Handshake: TLSv1.0/SSL-EDH-RSA-AES-256-SHA
2013-05-03 15:59:34 Session is ACTIVE
2013-05-03 15:59:35 EVENT: GET_CONFIG
2013-05-03 15:59:35 Sending PUSH_REQUEST to server...
2013-05-03 15:59:35 OPTIONS:
0 [ping] [10]
1 [ping-restart] [120]
2 [ifconfig] [10.0.1.2] [10.0.1.1]

2013-05-03 15:59:35 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=0
2013-05-03 15:59:35 EVENT: ASSIGN_IP
2013-05-03 15:59:35 Connected via tun
2013-05-03 15:59:35 EVENT: CONNECTED @artworksmedia.cz:1194
(37.157.197.197) via /TCPv4 on tun/10.0.1.2/
ssh

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    So I came up with a solution. Nah, it can't be called solution ... I just forgot about it and some days ago I reinstalled the iPhone. Today the VPN just got on my mind again so I tried it and voila - it works perfectly without any problems.

    I did clean install (no backup restore) and I installed all applications I had before reinstall except all of the games.

    I hope that this will help someone else. If someone told me to do that before I would have saved so much time ...

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