On 12/14/2013 12:33 PM, grarpamp wrote: > OpenVPN seems to have issues with slow socks5 servers. > There is an OpenVPN ticket you could add fixes/patches to. > > https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/328 > recv_socks_reply: TCP port read timeout expired: Operation now in > progress (errno=36)
I've had this problem as well. There's a poorly documented OpenVPN patch that adds a username/password option <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openvpn-devel/yt71urxsKL8>. > #ifdef ENABLE_SOCKS > - "--socks-proxy s [p]: Connect to remote host through a Socks5 > proxy at address\n" > - " s and port p (default port = 1080).\n" > + "--socks-proxy s [p] [up] : Connect to remote host through a Socks5 proxy at\n" > + " address s and port p (default port = 1080).\n" > + " If proxy authentication is required,\n" > + " up is a file containing username/password on 2 lines, or\n" > + " 'stdin' to prompt for console.\n" > "--socks-proxy-retry : Retry indefinitely on Socks proxy errors.\n" > #endif With Tor gateway VMs, adding "up" (using the VM's username and password) eliminated the timeout errors. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
