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Requests to cloud server that requires host header
by Lorne Kates 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

(related to Akamai message from before-- but I have better troubleshooting information). I'm tying to route traffic through stunnel to a "cloud" based-endpoint. That endpoint has a static server name-- test.authorize.net. (This is the dev sandbox for auth.net). But if you do an nslookup on test.authorize.net, you'll get back a different servername and IP, because it's so wonderfully "cloud". Stunnel apparently tries to connect to the nslookup value. The server rejects the request because it can't route it back to test.authorize.net. I've tried adding "delay = yes" and "sni = test.authorize.net", but neither work. To see this in action, a simple setup with any accept, then connect to test.authorize.net:443 in client = yes mode. This is what a valid response looks like (13 -- give me the darn merchant ID in a POST): https://test.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll This is what you'll get if you try to use stunnel (400 invalid url) : https://23.195.204.150/gateway/transact.dll So how can I get stunnel to send the proper Request Header (host: test.authorize.net), make sure it's using http/1.1, etc?

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Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100%
by Eric Eberhard 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Long ago I had a server with a bad network card. Every once in a while it would spew uncontrollable bytes onto the network. If you open a stunnel connection and it does that this could very well be the problem. If it cheap, try changing the network card. If not, you should be able to look in your firewall/router and it will tell you who is sending what bytes to whomever. See if that machine is indeed streaming the bytes in massive quantities. If not, I would suspect your stunnel is getting stuck in it's own loop. There are a million reasons this can happen (well a few less than a million) - such as maybe a bad library in the FreeBSD or a bad choice in the Makefile - such as doing threads or something in a way your O/S does not like (I use threads=fork or whatever it is, instead of actual threading). You might tinker with some of the options that make the stunnel build and try different ones. Especially if stunnel was compiled on a different version of the O/S - could be differences in bytes in things and who knows what. That is all I can suggest beyond setting the debug level to 7 (I think is highest) and then watching the log file. Eric From: stunnel-users [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org] On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:57 AM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% We are running stunnel 5.49 on FreeBSD 11.2 and we're running into a problem once in a while. CPU pegs at 100% when we get an stunnel connection from one of our external devices. This affects 100% of all cores and we can't even log in to console. To mitigate this temporarily, we have a script running in the background to watch when stunnel begins to spike and restarts the daemon. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, and so far I have been unable to distinguish what makes the connection do this to the CPU. Have any of you run in to this issue? Sincerely, Brian Murrey System Engineer II, IT Infrastructure _____ NOTICE: This message may contain privileged and confidential information and/or protected health information intended solely for the use of the named recipient and may be privileged or otherwise protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you should immediately notify the sender and delete this message. Do not disseminate, reproduce, or review this message or attachments if you are not the intended recipient. The sender or others may have legal rights restricting the dissemination of the information contained in this message and, as a result, remedies against you in the event of the improper dissemination of confidential information, trade secrets, personal information or privileged communications. This message is the work of the sender and does not necessarily reflect the position, views, or policies of TriMedx LLC or its affiliates. WARNING: The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed and may contain or transmit a virus or other illicit code. Neither TriMedx LLC or its affiliates accept liability for any damage attributable to viruses or illicit code transmitted through this message or an attachment.

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GRE over Stunnel
by marslogout＠gmail.com 17 May '24

17 May '24

Hello, is it possible to use GRE with Stunnel? I know that GRE is a protocol different from TCP, but I would like to hear your opinion on this matter. If GRE is not supported, would it be correct to replace it with PPTP without encryption?

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Stunnel with no encryption
by Castro, Flavio 16 May '24

16 May '24

Hello, I am trying to configure Stunnel to use the insecure cipher PSK-NULL-SHA@SECLEVEL=0 but am encountering issues where a different cipher appears to be negotiated instead. My goal is to authenticate endpoints without encryption. Here are the details of my setup: Stunnel Version: 5.63 Operating System: Ubuntu Stunnel Configuration: ; Stunnel Configuration ; Global Options fips = no output = /var/log/stunnel.log ; Specify the pre-shared key file PSKsecrets = /etc/stunnel/psk.txt sslVersion = TLSv1.2 ; PSK Server Configuration [PSK server] accept = 192.168.20.11:5074 connect = 192.168.30.11:5074 ciphers = PSK-NULL-SHA ; In OpenSSL, I can achieve my goal using the following command, which works as expected: openssl s_client -port 5074 -cipher "PSK-NULL-SHA@SECLEVEL=0" -psk 4f8583bca4d311ee9fd6034d1fcbd7c3 -tls1 However, with Stunnel, it appears a different cipher is negotiated, and I do not see any error messages in the logs. I tcpdumped the connection and observed the traffic is being encrypt which was not the case when using openssl. In my usecase I need to authenticate endpoints without encryption, hence the use of PSK-NULL-SHA@SECLEVEL=0. Could you please advise on how to properly configure Stunnel to use the PSK-NULL-SHA@SECLEVEL=0 cipher, or if this is supported? Thank you for your assistance. Flavio Castro

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