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Stunnel Connectivity Issue
by Dheeraj Gautam 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hi Team, We are using 5.41 release of Stunnel software to establish TCP connection with remote server using by TLSV1.2 protocol. Enclosed configuration file wherein we are trying to establish TCP connection with one my server along with provided certificate and key which are pointed in config file. Could you please let us know what parameters we are missing here due to which connection is not establishing with remote server. Although, stunnel logs indicating that configuration successful, but in logs no where is mentioned about the connection is it connected or not, below is the artifact for your easy ref. Could you please help us here to resolve this issue. Regards, Dheeraj Gautam -- www.arborfs.com This e-mail and any attachment are confidential and contain proprietary information, some or all of which may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the author immediately by telephone or by replying to this e-mail, and then delete all copies of the e-mail on your system. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. Whilst we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure that this e-mail and any attachment has been checked for viruses, we cannot guarantee that they are virus free and we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses. We would advise that you carry out your own virus checks, especially before opening an attachment.

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Stunnel on Suse 8.1, connections refused, pid remains
by InvalidPath 09 May '17

09 May '17

So I have this server, I can start stunnel via /etc/rc.d/stunnel start. The pid is there as witnessed by ps -aux | grep stunnel, I have 4 customers that access this server. The customers pull data files that contain certain client records. Anyway my test user connects to the server and is able to pull a handful of files before their process begins timing out. When this happens I can no longer SSH to the host without restarting stunnel. Weird thing is, is that I can see the pid still running when this happens. I have the debug = 7 but the log files according to stunnel - version is set to a level of 5. No clue where it''s getting a 5 from. But I am unable to determine why or what is causing this. And it's starting to cost the company lost revenue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ben

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Graceful config reload when -fd option was used
by z a 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hi, Since version 4.30, sending a HUP signal to a running stunnel process will cause it to gracefully reload with the given config file. Is there a way to accomplish this when the running stunnel process was started with the "-fd" flag as in the example below? cat foo.conf | stunnel-fd 0 I tried writing to /proc/$pid/fd/0 but that didn't work. I'm hoping someone here has overcome this issue and might be able to whisper a hint in my direction. I am on Centos 7.2. Thanks

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Trouble with stunnel.conf (version 5.41)
by Mark Garciano 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hi Stunnel users, Any ideas why I get a "server down" message"? Below is the conf file: ;--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ************************************************************************** ; * Global options * ; ************************************************************************** ; ; Debugging stuff (may useful for troubleshooting) debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ;Disable FIPS mode to allow non-approved protocols and algorithms fips = no ;************************************************************************** ; * Service defaults may also be specified in individual service sections * ; ************************************************************************** ; Disable support for insecure SSLv2 protocol options = NO_SSLv2 key = stunnel.pem cert = stunnel.pem client = yes accept = 5001 connect = XXXXXXXXXXX.com:6443 TIMEOUTclose = 0 TIMEOUTconnect = 200 TIMEOUTidle = 86400 ;--------------------------------------------------------------------------- HERE IS THE LOG WINDOW MESSAGE: [!] Server is down [ ] Running on Windows 6.1 [.] Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf [.] UTF-8 byte order mark detected [.] FIPS mode disabled [ ] Compression disabled [ ] Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd [ ] Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd [ ] PRNG seeded successfully [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration [!] Service [(null)]: 'accept' option is only allowed in a [section] Mark Garciano Systems Programmer II USC Libraries Integrated Library Systems 213-740-3568

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Re: [stunnel-users] Help in setting stunnel in client mode to connect webservice in mutual authentication
by Chokkalingam, Jothish 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi Can you help in sorting it out below scenario We have a URL whose TLS is 1.0 and now it is being upgraded to 1.2. Since the current application doesn't support V1.0 I am planning to use stunnel in between to fix the gap. Can you help if my below config is correct or not. The communication between client and server is MASSL(mutual authentication SSL) [Billpay46200] client = yes CApath = /apps/bss/CCBTrustStore-->trust store where the remote webservice certificates are stored in cert format accept = 46200-->port configured from client machine to connect using http connect = xxx.in.xxx.com.au:46200-->port where the incoming http request need to be changed from http to https cert = /stunnel/bin/client.pem-->identity certificate used for client key = /stunnel/bin/key.pem-->corresponding key for the above identity certificate. While hitting using the URL http://localhost:46200 it is shown in stunnel log as below 2017.04.28 17:17:51 LOG5[2627:3]: Billpay46200 accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:58382 2017.04.28 17:17:51 LOG5[2627:3]: Billpay46200 connected remote server from 10.116.194.24:58383 2017.04.28 17:17:51 LOG3[2627:3]: SSL_connect: Peer suddenly disconnected 2017.04.28 17:17:51 LOG5[2627:3]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket Thanks and Regards, Jothish TIBCO TSD Ph. : +91 44 39263958 Mobile : +91 9884040171 Support : +91 9962007110 OC : jothish.chokkalingam Group mail:- Telstra.psm.tsd.tibco(a)accenture.com ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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Remove session callback
by Florian Gossin 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, I have updated to the latest 5.41 version. I was troubleshooting another problem and I discovered dozens of lines in the log file with "Remove session callback, Deallocating application specific data for session connect address": 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Service [pgbouncer-client] started 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on local socket 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG5[17483]: Service [pgbouncer-client] accepted connection from x.x.x.x:36018 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG6[17483]: Peer certificate required 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): before/accept initialization 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: SNI: no virtual services defined 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: TLS state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Remove session callback 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Deallocating application specific data for session connect address 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Remove session callback 2017.04.19 14:49:49 LOG7[17483]: Deallocating application specific data for session connect address ... Can anyone explain me what it is about ? Thank you, Florian

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Windows Server 2012 stunnel service
by Adam Shackleton 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hi All I'm running stunnel on Windows Server 2012 R2 with the following config: [test-qa] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:8080 connect = webaddress.com:443 cert = API-q-response.pfx CAfile = ca-certs.pem OCSPaia = yes When I start the GUI I'm prompted for the certificate password then and then stunnel works fine, but I need it to run as a service. I've tried using the start menu stunnel Service Install button, I've also tried opening a command prompt in C:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel\config and running C:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel\bin\stunnel.exe -install, and I've also tried moving the config file and certs to the \bin directory and running stunnel -install there as well. In all case the service installs ok, and when you run it, it starts (I can see it in the services tool), you can click the stunnel Configuration File Reload button in the start menu and it says the configuration was successfully reloaded, but it doesn't work when I try to use it. I've noticed two things that might be relevant: 1. At no point does it prompt me for the certificate password like it does when I load the GUI 2. The dialog boxes that open when the service is installed or started say "stunnel 5.40 on Win32 (not configured) [cid:image001.png@01D2B81E.BD3E6BC0] If anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Adam

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SOCKS connection to the IPv4 loopback rejected.
by Robert de Bath 15 Apr '17

15 Apr '17

Hi everyone, How do I get rid of this message? I have a stunnel server setup on a remote machine using the socks protocol. I use two keys plus the certificates and a private CA to protect the SSL link. On a local machine I have an stunnel client running without a protocol option set. If I try to make a socks connection to an interface IP of the remote server it works perfectly, bypassing the intervening firewalls through the protected tunnel. But the interface IP changes and I only want to allow connections to the remote server through the tunnel. I could setup traditional tunnels, but while one of the services (remote desktop to the Windows server) is constant the others are dynamically configurable. I have even considered using SNI to distinguish the incoming connections to the various services but while this allows there to be just one tunnel port it will still need a remote reconfiguration of stunnel every time a service port is added or removed. The best way to express this limit is that the socks server should ONLY connect to localhost; but it's "rejected". In actual operation I will probably need to allow the local network too which will probably be an rfc1597 address. Looking at the source it appears that this condition is hard coded into the "validate" function so my question becomes: can you please remove this or add a flag to turn it off? -- Robert de Bath robert(a)tvisiontech.co.uk

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Configure Error
by Kenway Ng 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Hi I am running into an issue when I go into the src directory and I run the configure command, I get configure: error: Could not find your TLS library installation dir Use --with-ssl option to fix this problem I am trying to upgrade our version of stunnel. Our SME left and now I am trying to upgrade stunnel to fix a vulnerability . I am being told to use TLS1.1 or higher Here is our current version of stunnel $ ./stunnel -version stunnel 4.15 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP Any help would be appreciated. Kenway

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PSK, verifying the client
by Mike 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Is it possible to verify the client using PSK? On the stunnel server I specify a PSKsecrets file with two lines in it, one for client01 and one for client02. The secret is about 36 characters long. On a client, I have a similar PSKsecrets file, but only containing the client01 line. Now, if I try to connect with, say, a client03, i.e., any client that does not have a matching line in the server's PSKsecrets file, how can I assure that the client connection will be rejected? What I'd like to see would be the following: any client that tries to connect, and does not present a PSK that is present in the server's PSKsecrets file, then that client's connection request is rejected, with an appropriate message logged. Can I do that with the current stunnel? thx.

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