NordVPN status is "down" and/or "reconnecting-tls-error" after following online guide/chat tech support
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@HardRooster said in NordVPN status is "down" and/or "reconnecting-tls-error" after following online guide/chat tech support:
OMG, why do they take something that simple and obfuscate it?
And why can't the tech guy figure this out. I mean I shared with him all the same information I shared here, and he said "It's fine".
Anyway, /RantOff
Thank you so much for the help, you fixed in a few posts what I spent hours yesterday with tech support trying to do.
Not really sure why their Tech people couldn't sort it, it is documented:-
https://support.nordvpn.com/1089079142
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Who would you recommend for a VPN provider then?
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Update: NordVPN did finally get back to me with a support email. I tired out their solution, and it worked as well as the solution posted here.
So, in all better than ExpressVPN, as at least they know what pfsense is and how to support it, even if their chat helper wasn't that helpful, someone there at least knew how to fix my problem, even if it took 24 hours or so.
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@HardRooster said in NordVPN status is "down" and/or "reconnecting-tls-error" after following online guide/chat tech support:
and it worked as well as the solution posted here.
And what was their solution?
I wouldn't recommend a "vpn"... Its just snake oil you sell to the suckers... If you want to circumvent some geo restriction thats your own business... That is not security.. And its not privacy... If you you believe your isp is spying on you, or manipulating your traffic - 1st thing would be to change isp... But you could always just fire up a vps somewhere for a fraction of the cost of these vpn services and tunnel your traffic there, etc. etc.
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Thank you for contacting us via live chat.
Based on the screenshot, it seems that the CA certificate you used is incorrect/outdated. We started to use the same TLS key and CA cert for all of our servers as opposed to using different ones for each server. Perhaps our tutorial needs to be updated as well.
Please go to the System / Certificate Manager / CAs and press Edit on the certificate you imported.
Change the Certificate data field with this certificate instead:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
Lots of certificate numbers in here, deleted so as not to spam the crap out of this reply.
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
After that, save and apply the settings and check if the issue persists.
Let us know how it goes.
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So he made no mention of the client cert? The CA cert is given right on that page, along with the tls.
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Looks like they have updated the OpenVPN files to use the same certs but not the pfsense documentation:-
https://nordvpn.com/ovpn/
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@NogBadTheBad said in NordVPN status is "down" and/or "reconnecting-tls-error" after following online guide/chat tech support:
Think the following needs to be used:-
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Yup the above is correct, I now have 1 CA and 3 different OpenVPN connections.
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Ok, so I may be straying now into "start a new topic" territory, but I can't see any of the other computers on my network. Is this something to do with routing, and I just need to read more of the manual and figure out how to configure pfsense to do what I want?
I have a server, my workstation (over ethernet) and my laptop via wifi that I'd like to communicate with each-other. Mainly I want to file share off the server, so I can just quickly jump from working on my workstation to my laptop seamlessly, while keeping files stored in RAID on the server.
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Excellent! That did it, thank you.
