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OSX Mail crashes when using TunnelBlick and setting DNS/WINS

I encounter edge cases. It’s not fun. This particular situation caused OXS Mail.app to crash when using a VPN. The outline This particular edge case involved the following: OSX 10.11.1 (15B42) Tunnelblick 3.5.5 (build 4270.4461) Mail.app When running Mail.app, it would crash within 5-10 seconds. The full dump of the crash has been sent to

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OpenVPN clients don’t react well when the server goes down

I had a power failure at home tonight. The clients did not react well to the outage. They aren’t at home. They’re out there on the internets. Jul 9 01:02:49 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]10.233.228.194:1194 Jul 9 01:03:51 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]10.233.228.194:1194 Jul 9 01:04:53 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local

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running OpenVPN as something other than nobody:nobody

I am a big fan of OpenVPN. I’ve been using it since 2008. It’s been extremely reliable and stable. Out of the box, at least on FreeBSD, it runs as nobody:nobody (not really, but that’s how most people configure it). I can’t point to am immediate security issue with this situation. However, I’d prefer it

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