March 2016 - stunnel-users

stunnel FIPS mode 140-2/ Other Modes
by mehmet ozisik 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

Hi All, I would like to ask a question about stunnel fips mode. There are lots of question and answers on the internet related with this, but I could not find any answer related with mine. I am compiling with openssl (auto detecting fips) . Here is a part of confgiure output : checking for FIPS_mode_set... yes configure: FIPS mode detected So I am thinking that fips also is being included. Then I try to run stunnel on target platform (in stunnel.conf fips=yes) and it gives below error : Compiled/running with OpenSSL 0.9.8w-fips 23 Apr 2012 Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 SSL:ENGINE,OCSP,FIPS Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf FIPS_mode_set: 2D06906E: error:2D06906E:FIPS routines:FIPS_CHECK_INCORE_FINGERPRINT:fingerprint does not match there are lots of information about this errror on internet. Then when I configure stunnel.conf with fips=no, stunnel is running successfully. I know that fips=yes means that enables FIPS 140-2 mode and I guess my fips canister does not supoort fips 140-2 mode (I do not know which fips mode it has supported). Now my question is coming : When I set fips=no, stunnel also starts with other available fips modes which the canister included? Or it skips running fips mode completely? Plase inform me if anyone has any idea? Regards

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Stunnel 4 failing to connect to gmail
by Asif Iqbal 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

I am faling to connect to gmail. Not sure what that bind error means. iqbala@ghar:~$ sudo stunnel4 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: PRNG seeded successfully 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Private key loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SSL context initialized for service ssmtp 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: stunnel 4.22 on i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: 500 clients allowed 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: Error binding ssmtp to 74.125.93.111:587 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: bind: Cannot assign requested address (99) Here is how my conf file looks like iqbala@ghar:~$ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf | egrep -v "^;|^$" cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem foreground = yes sslVersion = SSLv3 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/ setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 pid = /stunnel4.pid socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log client = yes [ssmtp] accept = smtp.gmail.com:587 connect = 25 Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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stunnel and hosts.allow
by Yousef Alhashemi 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hi, This may be a little bit off-topic, but does anyone here use stunnel with pan? My connections to stunnel (in pan) are always refused by libwrap. I was looking for the right rule to add to /etc/hosts.allow but nothing seems to work aside from "ALL : ALL" (which is obviously not good) and "nntps: KNOWN". Is the latter reasonable? The hosts_access(5) manpage is confusing to say the least. It mentions that daemon (the first token on any line) is the name of the daemon running the process, which would be "stunnel" in my case, but using "stunnel : LOCAL" or even "stunnel : ALL" doesn't work. The rule that seems to work, as mentioned, is "nntps : KNOWN" ("nntps" being the group name in stunnel.conf). What's even more confusing to me is that "nntps : LOCAL" does not work either. Nor does "nntps : localhost 127.0.0.1", "nntps : localhost", "nntps : 127.0.0.1", or "nntps : 192.168.1.". Pan is running on the same machine as stunnel so all connections must be coming from localhost. Why do these rules not trigger? Either way, I'd like to know the "least permissive" hosts.allow rule that would allow me to connect to my news provider from pan, and/or whether "nntps : KNOWN" is a safe option. Thanks, Yousef

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Memory Leak in stunnel 5.31
by Fritz Gschwendner 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Hello, we have a memory leak with stunnel 5.31 in server mode on Windows Server 2012. Page File Bytes of the stunnel process keep growing. The more traffic the faster it's growing, until memory is exhausted and client connects start to fail with: 2016.03.31 15:50:30 LOG3[main]: _beginthread: Exec format error (8) 2016.03.31 15:50:30 LOG3[main]: Connection rejected: create_client failed I suspect it has something to do with clients not closing the connection correctly. We have a lot of connections ending like this: 2016.03.31 09:21:48 LOG3[5156]: SSL_shutdown: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (10054) 2016.03.31 09:21:48 LOG5[5156]: Connection reset: 239 byte(s) sent to SSL, 722 byte(s) sent to socket Is my suspicion plausible? Can you recommend a change in the configuration to avoid this issue? Anything else I can do to debug? The config looks something like this: cert = C:\crt.pem key = C:\key.key ciphers = ALL:!DH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 verify = 2 CAfile = C:\All-In-One.pem [test] accept = 23456 connect = 10.10.10.10

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Incoming port ignored
by Ivan De Masi 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Hello, I have a strange problem with my stunnel since a view days: I installed stunnel, because my AV-Scanner (Avira) is not able to scan e-mail traffic of encrypted connections to my mailprovider. So I configured both mail-clients (Thunderbird & Outlook) and AV-Scanner to listen on localhost and stunnel to connect to my mailprovider. This was working fine for a view days, but stoped some days ago and I'm not shure why. Maybe when I installed stunnel as a daemon I run into trouble (will bw another subject). The encrypted connection to my mailprovider is working and e-mails are recived and sent, but the AV-scanner doesn't "see" them anymore. I examined the log and what makes me wonder is, that the when fetching the e-mails, the configured ports (110/143/25) seem to be ignored: "Service [df-pop3s] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1878" or "Service [df-pop3s] accepted (FD=472) from 127.0.0.1:1882" The mails on my host are always bypassed on another port (the longer I run stunnel they change/increase) - see the log file. I have installed latest stunnel version (5.31) on Windows 7 (x86). Any ideas? Kind regards, Ivan Main-config: [df-pop3s] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:110 connect = sslin.df.eu:995 verify = 3 CAfile = peer-df-pop3s.pem checkHost = sslin.df.eu OCSPaia = yes [df-imaps] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:143 connect = sslin.df.eu:993 verify = 3 CAfile = peer-df-imaps.pem checkHost = sslin.df.eu OCSPaia = yes [df-smtps] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:25 connect = sslout.df.eu:465 verify = 3 CAfile = peer-df-smtps.pem checkHost = sslout.df.eu OCSPaia = yes Log: 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[cron]: Cron thread initialized 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: stunnel 5.31 on x86-pc-msvc-1500 platform 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips 1 Mar 2016 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: Threading:WIN32 Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: errno: (*_errno()) 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[ui]: GUI message loop initialized 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: UTF-8 byte order mark detected 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG5[main]: FIPS mode enabled 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: Compression disabled 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: Wrote 0 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG7[main]: PRNG seeded successfully 2016.03.30 09:22:21 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [df-pop3s] 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: SSL options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000l, -0x00000000) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [df-imaps] 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: SSL options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [df-smtps] 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: SSL options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG5[main]: Configuration successful 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Listening file descriptor created (FD=428) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Service [df-pop3s] (FD=428) bound to 127.0.0.1:110 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Listening file descriptor created (FD=432) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Service [df-imaps] (FD=432) bound to 127.0.0.1:143 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Listening file descriptor created (FD=436) 2016.03.30 09:22:23 LOG7[main]: Service [df-smtps] (FD=436) bound to 127.0.0.1:25 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: Found 1 ready file descriptor(s) 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: FD=352 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: FD=428 ifds=r-x ofds=r-- 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: FD=432 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: Service [df-pop3s] accepted (FD=460) from 127.0.0.1:1878 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: Creating a new thread 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[main]: New thread created 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: Service [df-pop3s] started 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG5[0]: Service [df-pop3s] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1878 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG6[0]: s_connect: connecting 134.119.18.26:995 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 134.119.18.26:995: waiting 10 seconds 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 134.119.18.26:995 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG5[0]: Service [df-pop3s] connected remote server from 192.168.1.2:1879 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: Remote descriptor (FD=484) initialized 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG6[0]: SNI: sending servername: sslin.df.eu 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv2/v3 write client hello A 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: Verification started at depth=2: C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, OU=Root CA, CN=GlobalSign Root CA 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: CERT: Pre-verification succeeded 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: OCSP: Ignoring root certificate 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG6[0]: Certificate accepted at depth=2: C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, OU=Root CA, CN=GlobalSign Root CA 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: Verification started at depth=1: C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, CN=AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG7[0]: CERT: Pre-verification succeeded 2016.03.30 09:22:42 LOG5[0]: OCSP: Connecting the AIA responder "http://ocsp.globalsign.com/rootr1" 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: s_connect: connecting 104.16.25.216:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 104.16.25.216:80: waiting 10 seconds 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 104.16.25.216:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: OCSP: Connected ocsp.globalsign.com:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: OCSP: Response received 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: Status: good 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: This update: Mar 30 05:42:27 2016 GMT 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: Next update: Apr 3 05:42:27 2016 GMT 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: OCSP: Certificate accepted 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: Certificate accepted at depth=1: C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, CN=AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: Verification started at depth=0: C=DE, OU=Domain Control Validated, CN=sslin.df.eu 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: CERT: Pre-verification succeeded 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: CERT: Host name "sslin.df.eu" matched with "sslin.df.eu" 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: CERT: Locally installed certificate matched 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: OCSP: Connecting the AIA responder "http://ocsp2.globalsign.com/gsalphasha2g2" 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: s_connect: connecting 104.16.25.216:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 104.16.25.216:80: waiting 10 seconds 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 104.16.25.216:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: OCSP: Connected ocsp2.globalsign.com:80 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: OCSP: Response received 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: Status: good 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: This update: Mar 27 21:09:59 2016 GMT 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: OCSP: Next update: Mar 31 21:09:59 2016 GMT 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: OCSP: Certificate accepted 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG5[0]: Certificate accepted at depth=0: C=DE, OU=Domain Control Validated, CN=sslin.df.eu 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server key exchange A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: Client certificate not requested 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server session ticket A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: 1 client connect(s) requested 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: 1 client connect(s) succeeded 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: 0 client renegotiation(s) requested 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: 0 session reuse(s) 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: Peer certificate was cached (4539 bytes) 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG6[0]: Negotiated TLSv1.2 ciphersuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128-bit encryption) 2016.03.30 09:22:46 LOG7[0]: Compression: null, expansion: null 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: SSL alert (read): warning: close notify 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG6[0]: SSL closed (SSL_read) 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: Sent socket write shutdown 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG6[0]: Read socket closed (readsocket) 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: Sending close_notify alert 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: SSL alert (write): warning: close notify 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG6[0]: SSL_shutdown successfully sent close_notify alert 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG5[0]: Connection closed: 304 byte(s) sent to SSL, 545297 byte(s) sent to socket 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: Remote descriptor (FD=484) closed 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: Local descriptor (FD=460) closed 2016.03.30 09:23:01 LOG7[0]: Service [df-pop3s] finished (0 left) 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: Found 1 ready file descriptor(s) 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: FD=352 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: FD=428 ifds=r-x ofds=r-- 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: FD=432 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: Service [df-pop3s] accepted (FD=472) from 127.0.0.1:1882 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: Creating a new thread 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[main]: New thread created 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: Service [df-pop3s] started 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG5[1]: Service [df-pop3s] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1882 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG6[1]: s_connect: connecting 134.119.18.26:995 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 134.119.18.26:995: waiting 10 seconds 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG5[1]: s_connect: connected 134.119.18.26:995 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG5[1]: Service [df-pop3s] connected remote server from 192.168.1.2:1883 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: Remote descriptor (FD=468) initialized 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG6[1]: SNI: sending servername: sslin.df.eu 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: 2 client connect(s) requested 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: 2 client connect(s) succeeded 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: 0 client renegotiation(s) requested 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG7[1]: 1 session reuse(s) 2016.03.30 09:23:02 LOG6[1]: SSL connected: previous session reused 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: SSL alert (read): warning: close notify 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG6[1]: SSL closed (SSL_read) 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: Sent socket write shutdown 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG6[1]: Read socket closed (readsocket) 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: Sending close_notify alert 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: SSL alert (write): warning: close notify 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG6[1]: SSL_shutdown successfully sent close_notify alert 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG5[1]: Connection closed: 149 byte(s) sent to SSL, 336471 byte(s) sent to socket 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: Remote descriptor (FD=468) closed 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: Local descriptor (FD=472) closed 2016.03.30 09:23:08 LOG7[1]: Service [df-pop3s] finished (0 left) 2016.03.30 09:23:21 LOG6[cron]: Executing cron jobs 2016.03.30 09:23:21 LOG6[cron]: Cron jobs completed in 0 seconds 2016.03.30 09:23:21 LOG7[cron]: Waiting 86400 seconds

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Re: [stunnel-users] Connecting stunnels
by Ludolf Holzheid 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

On Thu, 2016-03-31 09:39:49 -0400, Carter Browne wrote: > A single instance of stunnel can be a server or a client depending on > the settings. For this configuration, you would want host3 to be a > server not a client. > Thus, you need the intermediate port on server2 to server as both a > client and a server: > > In your configuration files you would need: > > Host1: > [secure_telnet] > accept = local:23 > connect = host2:host2port1 > client = yes > > Host2: > [incoming_telnet_relay] > accept = host2:host2port1 > connect = local:host2port2 > client = no > > [outgoing_telnet_relay] > accept =local:host2port2 > connect = host3:host3port1 > client = yes > > Host3: > [incoming_telnet] > accept = host3:host3port1 > connect = local:23 Carter, What's the advantage of this setup over a direct connection from Host1 to Host3? Host1: [secure_telnet] accept = local:23 connect = host3:host3port1 client = yes Host3: [incoming_telnet] accept = host3:host3port1 connect = local:23 client = no If e.g. Host3 isn't directly reachable from Host1, a simple port forwarding (without decryption and re-encryption) on Host2 would suffice. Ludolf -- Ludolf Holzheid Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH Floßwörthstraße 41 68199 Mannheim, Germany Tel: +49 621 33996-0 Fax: +49 621 3392239 mailto:lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de http://www.bihl-wiedemann.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Mannheim Geschäftsführer: Jochen Bihl, Bernhard Wiedemann Amtsgericht Mannheim, HRB 5796

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Connecting stunnels
by Juhasz Gabor 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Hi, I am newbie in stunnel world so sorry for my question if it was already answered earlier. I have the following task to solve somehow : We have 1 server with 2 stunnel connections (any kind). We have e.g. http communicatoin via tunnels. Is there any support in stunnel to connect them somehow. Probably we do not need bidirectional communication. [client1]----- stunnel 1---> [server]------stunnel2 ----->[client2] So [client1] --> [client2] If there is no support in stunnel do you have any idea how to do it? Kind regards, Gabor

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Please help
by Steve Wollan 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Installed stunnel-5.31 (stunnel-5.31-installer) so that I can get MT4, a Forex trade platform, to send me mails to my Gmail account. I was told this was necessary because MT4 doesn't support SSL Authentication. I attempted to start and received this; [image: Inline image 1] It looks like a config file issue but also would not bind? Is this one issue? I was told all I needed to do with the config file is this; [image: Inline image 2] Can you please simply help me with the config file? I'm lost and need help. Thanks to all in advance for your help.

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Using stunnel for TLS with Geotrust cert?
by Jon Bogaty 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Hey stunnel-users, I'm having an issue both on stunnel4 and on 5 which I think is more related to a lack of understanding of the difference between how stunnel uses intermediate chain certs and root CA certs. I have from Geotrust, who signs my SSL certs, an intermediate.crt which by the stunnel docs should be catted into one stunnel.pem with the cert for my domain and the private key. The issue is when I setup everything on the server and try to connect with a client I either get for "verify 2" warnings about MiTM authentication problems, or for "verify 3" or "verify 4", which should disable CA checking altogether to my understanding, "Please specify CApath". I feel like I'm missing something critical in terms of pieces. The goal is to use stunnel as a proxy for mysql and the conf is pretty barebones: sslVersion = TLSv1 setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 pid = /var/lib/stunnel4/stunnel4.pid debug = 7 foreground = yes socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem verify = 3 [mysqls] accept = 3307 connect = localhost:3306 It runs just fine using supervisor. Any thoughts and how I could make the handshake work between server and client using geotrust's intermediate crt as the CA cert, or something similar? It contains certs down to the root level. Thanks! Jon

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Install directory with /S /D=[path]
by Yoshitake, Aaron 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Hi all, I'm making an installer that installs stunnel as a dependency, and I'd like to customize its install directory while running it in silent mode. Per the NSIS docs, my command has the /S switch for silent mode, but when I try /D=[path], the installer ignores it and installs to Program Files (x86)/stunnel anyway. Is there a workaround for this? Thanks, Aaron

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