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[RE] Using stunnel for RDP / Proxy / Firewall
by Algol Tradent 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hello, I think your problem might be related to your configuration firewall/router. Have you enabled port-forwarding for the connection? >From your configuration files I can see you are using port 1494. Check that you are forwarding that port. Also make sure you configure any firewall software running on the machine you want to connect to, in order to allow connections. Best Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Using stunnel for RDP / Proxy / Firewall
by garberfc 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi All I'm a relative newbie to Stunnel, and am trying to set up a tunnel so I can Remote Desktop from work to my PC/server at home. I'm using versions 4.20 of the Windows binaries. I've tested the configuration and it works from home using a laptop that is going through my firewall when I enter my domain home (so my firewall is set up correctly). I tried a variety of common ports and got the same response every time. I had to use the 127.0.0.2 on the client because Remote Desktop didn't want me connecting to myself... When I try if from work I get a dialog box: The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer. The most likely causes for this error are: 1) Remote connections might not be enabled at the remote computer. 2)The maximum number of connections was exceeded at the remote computer. 3) A network error occurred while establishing the connection. My config is as follows: #Client ;cert = stunnel.pem ;key = stunnel.pem ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [https-RDT] accept = 127.0.0.2:3389 connect = xx.xx.xx.xx:1494 #Server ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = no ; Service-level configuration [https-RDT] accept = 1494 connect = localhost:3389 Is there something I need to do to traverse this proxy? Any help would be greatly appreciated! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-stunnel-for-RDP---Proxy---Firewall-tf4654985.ht… Sent from the Stunnel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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scaling stunnel
by Ben Hartshorne 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hi, I am trying to set up syslog + stunnel in a large environment. I am curious about the experience of members of this mailing list regarding how stunnel + syslog-ng scale. I set up a test environment using stunnel 3.26 (because that's what is in my debian installation)[*]. I configured stunnel to run as a daemon (starting on boot), and syslog passes off messages and receives messages from localhost:514. In the stunnel log, it tells me that there is a limit of 500 clients, and it seems that with stunnel 3.x, it must be recompiled to increase this limit. I found some posts on this list that say that while stunnel 3.x uses select(), stunnel 4.x uses poll(), which is much more efficient. So I figure that if I will have to roll my own package, I may as well upgrade to 4.x at the same time. Agree? If so, which version? It's my understanding that this configuration will create a persistent connection between the client and server, holding it open until such time as syslog needs to send a message across it. How many clients have you experienced being able to connect to the log aggregator? My logs are rather sparse, so I expect I will hit a limit based on processor / filehandle / memory usage before I start overloading the local disk. Eventually, I realize that I will have to build a tree structure with intermediate nodes aggregating logs and passing them on to the central host, but I would like to know where people have hit that limit. I would love to have ~5000 clients connected to each aggregating server. Is this within the realm of experience? Does anybody have tuning suggestions for such high numbers of connections? I saw one person mention on the mailing list that compiling without libwrap allowed him to pass ~2500 connections (though he didn't give a new ceiling). Thanks, -ben [*] I was actually impressed at how easy this was. Aside from having to write my own /etc/init.d/ scripts to start the client and server, I could bring down either end of the stunnel connection, and things would just pick up where they left off when the tunnel was reconnected. Add monit into the picture and you've got a nice resilient secure logging system. Slick! -- Ben Hartshorne email: ben(a)hartshorne.net http://ben.hartshorne.net

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SSL Accelerator card and Stunnel
by domstra＠alice.it 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi all, We are using STunnel v.3.x and STunnel v.4.x on different systems (Application Servers and DB Servers, on HP and Sun mainframe hardware). We have noticed that the STunnel load is quite heavy for the CPUs of each Server. So, we are beginning to study and analyze a solution that allows we to use STunnel without generate overhead on the CPUs. A good solution could be using a SSL Accelerator card as "SSL engine", in order to offloading the calls to the card CPU. We have also read the following topic in your mailing-list regarding a solutions similar to ours: List: stunnel-users Subject: SSL Accelerator supporto for Stunnel Can you suggest us a list of "SSL Accelerator card" model (and vendor) to install and configure with STunnel? Anyway, do you suggest us to upgrade the STunnel version to the last stable on each Server? Thanks in advance for the support. Awaiting for your kind feedback and suggestions. Best Regards. Dom *********** Scopri la nuova Alice Mail! <http://registra.rossoalice.alice.it/registra/basic/entratabasic.do?entryPoi…> 1 GB di spazio con antivirus, antispam e fino a 2 GB di allegati. <http://registra.rossoalice.alice.it/registra/basic/entratabasic.do?entryPoi…> Registrati GRATIS <http://registra.rossoalice.alice.it/registra/basic/entratabasic.do?entryPoi…>

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stunnel and pan newsreader configuration
by Kernel Panic 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

I am attempting to use stunnel to connect securely to a snntp server using pan 0.132. The stunnel install was successful, but when attempting to connect to the server using pan, I either receive a "connection refused" or "connection reset by peer" in the pan error log. Here is the stunnel.log: 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG5[5843:3082667712]: stunnel 4.20 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG5[5843:3082667712]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG5[5843:3082667712]: 500 clients allowed 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP bound to 127.0.0.1:23 2007.10.13 11:16:43 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Created pid file /home/kpanic/download/stunnel//var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:1085 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP started 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: Child process 5855 finished with code 0 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:1085 permitted by libwrap 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: NNTP accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1085 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG3[5843:3085958032]: bind transparent: Address already in use (98) 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP finished (0 left) 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:1086 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP started 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:1086 permitted by libwrap 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: NNTP accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1086 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: Child process 5857 finished with code 0 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG3[5843:3085958032]: bind transparent: Address already in use (98) 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.10.13 11:17:00 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP finished (0 left) 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:1087 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP started 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:1087 permitted by libwrap 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: NNTP accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1087 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: Child process 5860 finished with code 0 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG3[5843:3085958032]: bind transparent: Address already in use (98) 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.10.13 11:17:05 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP finished (0 left) 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:1088 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP started 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:1088 permitted by libwrap 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: NNTP accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1088 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: Child process 5863 finished with code 0 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG3[5843:3085958032]: bind transparent: Address already in use (98) 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.10.13 11:17:10 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP finished (0 left) 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: NNTP accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:1089 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP started 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3082667712]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:1089 permitted by libwrap 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: NNTP accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1089 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG6[5843:3082667712]: Child process 5866 finished with code 0 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG3[5843:3085958032]: bind transparent: Address already in use (98) 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG5[5843:3085958032]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.10.13 11:17:15 LOG7[5843:3085958032]: NNTP finished (0 left) Here is the snnt.conf file: # Debug debug = 7 output = /home/kpanic/download/stunnel/stunnel.log # Use it for client mode client = yes foreground = yes [NNTP] protocol = nntp protocolusername = username protocolpassword = password transparent = yes accept = localhost:23 connect = secure.server.com:563 Here is the pan error log: Sat Oct 13 10:46:50 2007 - Error reading from localhost: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:46:55 2007 - Error reading from localhost: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:47:00 2007 - Error reading from localhost: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:47:05 2007 - Error reading from localhost: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:47:10 2007 - Error reading from localhost: Connection reset by peer Changing the server setup in pan to look at 127.0.0.1 Sat Oct 13 10:45:40 2007 - Pan 0.132 started Sat Oct 13 10:45:40 2007 - Loaded data backend in 0.0 seconds Sat Oct 13 10:45:47 2007 - Error reading from 127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:45:50 2007 - Error reading from 127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:45:55 2007 - Error reading from 127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer Sat Oct 13 10:46:00 2007 - Error reading from 127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer Pan configuration: Address: localhost Port: 23 Username: username Password: password uname -r 2.6.22.9-0.4-bigsmp suse 10.3 Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Tim --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.

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configuration help
by Tom Allison 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

I posted an email a couple days ago and noticed that there isn't any traffic on this mailing list. Is this active/current?

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Stunnel Return Codes - How do I see them in a batch file?
by Robert Lambrecht 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

I have Stunnel working successfully in a batch file. I would like to write the error codes in case there is an issue. How do you do this? In Windows, I could do something like: "C:\Program Files\stunnel\stunnel.exe" -start -quiet stunnel.conf goto %errorlevel% :0 :: Normal Return - Complete Batch Process goto :EOF :1 :: Errors - Log them Would this work or how do I get the stunnel return codes? Bob

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Wildcard usage
by Knight Tiger 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi, I am new to STUNNEL and I find it very useful for what I am doing right now. I would like to know if STUNNEL does support the functionality I require. I shall describe the situation below. I run a SIP messaging server (SIP is a VoIP protocol used to establish voice calls over the Internet). STUNNEL is running on the same machine as the SIP server. The SIP server listens on a specific port say 8000 so I have in the config file [sip-new] accept = 10000 connect = localhost:8000 and it works beautifully as the client sends the message through a SSL connection to port 10000 on the machine. So far so good. Now I need the server to send a message to the client. SIP server -----> STUNNEL ------> client . Here STUNNEL acts as a SSL client and the client acts as the SSL server. (Both the client and STUNNEL support this functionality), so in the config file I have [sip-client] accept = 11000 connect = ?:8000 How can I code in the client IP address (I know the port number where the client's SSL server is listening on) when I dont know the client IP address before hand ? (The client is typically assigned IP address by a DHCP server) and I will have more than one client which would be acting as a server. The SIP server will know the client's IP address when the client sends a request. (SIP server can determine the IP address from the SIP message and not from the IP header) . So now the message from the SIP server will have the client's IP address but STUNNEL does not have a config for that IP address (since it is dynamic and I need to support many clients) and hence STUNNEL will not create a SSL tunnel to the client. Can I have wildcard for the IP address ? something like [sip-client] accept = 11000 connect = *:8000 and have STUNNEL get the destination IP from the message ? I thank you all in advance, Warm Regards Knight

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Stunnel on the same machine
by subrata＠indiatimes.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi I want to configure to encrypt mysql both client and server on the same machine. Ie the /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p on the same machine where my mysql daemon is located. How to achieve this. regards Subrata -- My life has changed. What about yours? Log on to the new Indiatimes Mail and Live out of the Inbox!

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 14
by sreejith 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, What you have understood is correct. We are the provider of the Web Service; and my requirement is something as explained below, The end users are using a Web site and the data entered in the web site will be converted to an XML file and send to the Web Service which we have provided. The end users are using STUNNEL to encrypt the XML files before sending to us. Hence, I need to decrypt the message and process it. Hence, I think I need to use STUNNEL for doing the same. Also, upon request from the end users I need to send some data, again it is XML files; and I need to encrypt this using STUNNEL and send it to the end user. I am new to STUNNEL and went through the examples provided in www.stunnel.org and didn't get a very good idea on how to get this done. I hope, I am able to make it clear this time. Best regards, Sreejith On 9/28/07, stunnel-users-request(a)mirt.net <stunnel-users-request(a)mirt.net> wrote: > > Send stunnel-users mailing list submissions to > stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > stunnel-users-request(a)mirt.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > stunnel-users-owner(a)mirt.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of stunnel-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Stunnel Dies at 3500 connections... (bear(a)bears.org) > 2. Re: Using Stunnel (Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:18:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: bear(a)bears.org > Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel Dies at 3500 connections... > To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709271117350.31308(a)ferocity.bears.org> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Michal Trojnara wrote: > > > Try to disable libwrap first: > > ./configure --disable-libwrap > > make clean > > make > > make install > > It is a bottleneck for this kind of tests. > > PERFECT! Thank you very much! That seems to have sorted out my troubles. > The load average stayed well within what I expected. I've got a hardware > firewall protecting the machine, so libwrap wasn't helping me anyhow. > > Peace, > Gary > > ********* ***** ** Gary Coulbourne > *************************.* Bear Activist > ****** *********** ** *******o > ******* ********* **** ****`- Systems Administrator > ******* ********* ***** http://www.bears.org > ****** ********** **** bear(a)bears.org > ## ***** ***** ## **** KB3INA > ### ***** ### **** Animal Conservation/Preservation > #,,, ***,,, ##,,, **,,, > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:23:58 -0500 > From: Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <rodrigo(a)nul-unu.com> > Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Using Stunnel > To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > Message-ID: <20070927172358.GB4459(a)caribdis.nul-unu.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:46:53PM +0530, sreejith wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > I have a requirement where in I have a web service that uses STUNNEL for > > encrypting and decrypting XML messages. Please help me out with how to > > proceed ? What needs to be done ? How the configuration file should be ? > > Your question is a little confusing. I assume you are trying to encrypt > the > http traffic that the web service travels over. Otherwise, if you want > to have unencrypted http carrying encripted xml, stunnel is not for you. > > In any case, are you the provider or the consumer for the web service? > > -- > Rodrigo Gallardo > GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28 >

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Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel Testing
by Robert Lambrecht 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I changed BLAT to a port on the local host and set up Stunnel as suggested on a port other than 25. Everything works well. I will have to play with WireShark to see if SSL works. Thanks for the information. Bob

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Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel Testing
by Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:23:29PM -0500, Robert Lambrecht wrote: > I am using a command line mailer (BLAT) from a batch file to notify me when > errors occur. My ISP requires SSL however still allows non-SSL traffic on > Port 25 as well. > > I then use Stunnel with the following config: > > [smtps] > accept = 25 > connect = smtp.isp.domain.net:465 > > Port 465 is the SSL port for my ISP. > > I run Stunnel as a service in Vista. > > I then have BLAT send an SMTP message on Port 25 to my ISP. This works. stunnel is listening on port 25 *of your machine*, not your isp's. Thus, you need to have BLAT send it to localhost, port 25. Better yet, to avoid confussion, have stunnel listen on some other port (456 would be a good choice), and have BLAT send to localhost, on that port. To check you're not sending anything on the clear, install a network sniffer (wireshark is good) and have it show your network trafic to your.isp.com. If you can read the mail in the displayed traffic, you're sending in cleartext ;-)

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Stunnel Testing
by Robert Lambrecht 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

I am using a command line mailer (BLAT) from a batch file to notify me when errors occur. My ISP requires SSL however still allows non-SSL traffic on Port 25 as well. Here is my scenario: I use BLAT to send an SMTP message on Port 25 to my ISP. This works but I must send my userid and password which I don't want to do. I then use Stunnel with the following config: [smtps] accept = 25 connect = smtp.isp.domain.net:465 Port 465 is the SSL port for my ISP. I run Stunnel as a service in Vista. I then have BLAT send an SMTP message on Port 25 to my ISP. This works. My question is, everything seems to work but how can I test this? I'm trying to figure out if it really worked (I sent the message with SSL to port 465) or I am still just sending a message on Port 25. Since both of these cases work, it is hard for me to tell. I've tried to telnet to these ports; however, since I basically have to specify port 25 in either case for the test, I'm not sure that I am successful. Any thoughts on how to make sure my messages are going through SSL? Bob

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stunnel-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 14
by Menon, Sreejith Mohan 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hi, What you have understood is correct. We are the provider of the Web Service; and my requirement is something as explained below, The end users are using a Web site and the data entered in the web site will be converted to an XML file and send to the Web Service which we have provided. The end users are using STUNNEL to encrypt the XML files before sending to us. Hence, I need to decrypt the message and process it. Hence, I think I need to use STUNNEL for doing the same. Also, upon request from the end users I need to send some data, again it is XML files; and I need to encrypt this using STUNNEL and send it to the end user. I am new to STUNNEL and went through the examples provided in www.stunnel.org and didn't get a very good idea on how to get this done. I hope, I am able to make it clear this time. I was communicating through another email id till now (sreejithmohanm(a)gmail.com). For our future communication, I will be using the present email id. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks and best regards, Sreejith Mohan Menon Software Engineer Globalization Services SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. 4th Floor 1B, RMZ NXT, Sonnenhalli, K.R. Puram Hobli, East Taluk, Bangalore - 560 066. P - +91 80 4013 4987 M - +91 98863 08088 mailto:sreejith.mohan.menon@sap.com

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Using Stunnel
by sreejith 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Dear friends, I have a requirement where in I have a web service that uses STUNNEL for encrypting and decrypting XML messages. Please help me out with how to proceed ? What needs to be done ? How the configuration file should be ? Thanks and best regards, Sreejith

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Stunnel Dies at 3500 connections...
by bear＠bears.org 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hey! I'm having a problem with a stunnel setup I have, and was wondering if anyone could help? I have two machines, one is acting as a simulator of clients. It uses the MINA library from apache to simulate a bunch of clients of the server. And the other acting as a server. Without stunnel in place, the client and server chat with no trouble... even with as many as 10k simulated clients. The protocol they communicate is just compressed binary data over standard TCP/IP. 20-50 bytes each direction per exchange. The behavior changes once stunnel is in place. The server behaves just fine, but the client acts very strange... in ways that make me think that stunnel is hitting some OS limit. (The files ulimit is set waaaaaay higher than the number of clients) On starting the client application, it begins making connections through the stunnel tunnel. The first 1500 or so are fine, but after that the load on the machine begins to climb. It gets to 5 or so around 2000. If I only do 2000 clients, the load then drops down into the 0.5 range, and the system runs okay. However, if I set the number of simulated clients higher... say 4000, the load continues to climb. When it gets to 3500 or so, the load goes above 500. The machine becomes unusable, and after a bit, stunnel dies with the message KILLED. I tried changing how quickly the clients connect, but that seemed to make no difference. Also, running two stunnels for the clients, and sending 2000 to each, for instance, causes it to still break down around 3500 or so. (Which is why I think it is an os limit) Any suggestions on this? Thanks! Peace, Gary version Stunnel 4.20 startup info 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG4[26537:3086939840]: Wrong permissions on hcs-key-and-cert-1024.pem 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: Certificate: hcs-key-and-cert-1024.pem 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: Certificate loaded 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: Key file: hcs-key-and-cert-1024.pem 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: Private key loaded 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: SSL context initialized for service hcsuno 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG5[26537:3086939840]: stunnel 4.20 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG5[26537:3086939840]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG6[26537:3086939840]: file ulimit = 80000 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG6[26537:3086939840]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG5[26537:3086939840]: 39062 clients allowed 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: FD 3 in non-blocking mode 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: hcsuno bound to 0.0.0.0:4090 2007.09.24 12:09:50 LOG7[26537:3086939840]: Created pid file /tmp/stunnel1.pid uname -a Linux testbed-client1 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Aug 12 09:39:11 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux libc 2.3.4 stunnel -version stunnel 4.20 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP Global options debug = 5 pid = /usr/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3) openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 In the config, I have: client=yes debug=debug socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 pid = /tmp/stunnel1.pid foreground=yes [hcsuno] accept=4090 connect = testbed-hcs1:4094 cert = hcs-key-and-cert-1024.pem key = hcs-key-and-cert-1024.pem ********* ***** ** Gary Coulbourne *************************.* Bear Activist ****** *********** ** *******o ******* ********* **** ****`- Systems Administrator ******* ********* ***** http://www.bears.org ****** ********** **** bear(a)bears.org ## ***** ***** ## **** KB3INA ### ***** ### **** Animal Conservation/Preservation #,,, ***,,, ##,,, **,,,

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Setting up Stunnel with Gmail.
by Roger 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi, A simple question from a technical learner! I use Gmail's POP3 & SMTP [SSL] servers for three Gmail accounts using Thunderbird as my email client. I would like to know EXACTLY how to set up stunnel so that my anti-virus program ( NOD32) can scan messages being sent and received by SSL on ports 995 & 465. I have Open SSL installed: downloaded but not yet installed stunnel set up. I have tried before to use stunnel, but failed as I keep getting message, as I recall, to the effect that localhost is not recognised. There are detailed explanations on the web for configuring with Spampal, but I don't have, or need Spampal! Thanks, Roger

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Re: [stunnel-users] Relaying OOB data [Was: A series of minor patchesfrom Debian]
by Richard's Hotmail 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi Luis, Thanks for the detailed reply! > Ok, been reading. The short answer is no. Oh well :-( I guess that's what IPsec's for. > The longer answer is SSL doesn't support OOB data, so that's why > not. I did read your post saying you've read specs where it says it > does, but I could find no such. Take a look at RFC4346, section 6.2 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4346#page-14 > Take a look also at this thread: > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg01041.html Doesn't that thread suggest that OOB functionality is part of the SSLv3 standard? Is version three one of those "yet to be" standards that is still a long way off? Renamed TLS? (I found several RFCs dealing with this, anyone know which is the relevant one? I couldn't find "Urgent", "OOB" or "band" in 4346) My understanding (imagination maybe) is that the OOB character is to be packaged up as a single byte record surrounded with the SSL wrapper with a bit set that says it's the OOB character. I would now like stunnel just to dequeue it from SSL and then set the MSG_OOB flag and replay it to the application port. So it's sort of quasi-OOB to Stunnel and then true-OOB to the receiving port. > The argument (almost) in full: > - SSL doesn't define anything like OOB data in its streams, so > anything we did in stunnel would be an extension, and not > interoperable. And, anyways, would have to be done in openssl and not > in stunnel, I think. I must be confused about what's available (the only SSL code I've cut is simple Java client stuff) 'cos I'm sure I've seen patch-comments that say something like "make sure stunnel handles OOB data correctly" and isn't there some sort of OOB INLINE configuration parameter. Is there really northing available after the SSL_Read that identifies the data as an OOB character? Anyway, thanks again for the reply. Cheers Richard Maher PS. Does anyone out there know of a lower-level version of Stunnel (or something else) that spoofs the originating host-address when replaying the connection on the local server? It sure would be useful for client identification, and for reducing DoS attacks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz" <rodrigo(a)nul-unu.com> To: <stunnel-users(a)mirt.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:14 AM Subject: [stunnel-users] Relaying OOB data [Was: A series of minor patchesfrom Debian] > _______________________________________________ > stunnel-users mailing list > stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users

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A series of minor patches from Debian
by Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hello. I have recently become the maintainer for the Debian package of stunnel. During the adoption process I noticed a few things that I think would be good to fix in the code. I will be sending the patches to this list (unless a better place for this is pointed out) as separate mails, to allow them to have individual responses, but thought I'd better introduce myself first. Thank you all, -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28

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[patch] FSF postal address is outdated
by Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

The following long but rather trivial patch fixes up the FSF's postal address in the licencing statements for source files. This is a minor change, mostly for the benefit of tying up loose ends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/src/client.c b/src/client.c index 6b3c5a4..a578b81 100644 --- a/src/client.c +++ b/src/client.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/common.h b/src/common.h index c666086..f96a537 100644 --- a/src/common.h +++ b/src/common.h @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifndef COMMON_H diff --git a/src/ctx.c b/src/ctx.c index 90dbdbc..dd4e01b 100644 --- a/src/ctx.c +++ b/src/ctx.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/env.c b/src/env.c index c195950..cbf105d 100644 --- a/src/env.c +++ b/src/env.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/file.c b/src/file.c index 5075b77..e00a82b 100644 --- a/src/file.c +++ b/src/file.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/gui.c b/src/gui.c index df1d6a8..d820b15 100644 --- a/src/gui.c +++ b/src/gui.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/log.c b/src/log.c index 0e3f927..45186b2 100644 --- a/src/log.c +++ b/src/log.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/network.c b/src/network.c index 98b1f5a..dfb76fa 100644 --- a/src/network.c +++ b/src/network.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/nogui.c b/src/nogui.c index deeca5b..a02cea7 100644 --- a/src/nogui.c +++ b/src/nogui.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c index bad281b..25a6e81 100644 --- a/src/options.c +++ b/src/options.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/protocol.c b/src/protocol.c index f579138..218450c 100644 --- a/src/protocol.c +++ b/src/protocol.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/prototypes.h b/src/prototypes.h index 004a576..50b2aec 100644 --- a/src/prototypes.h +++ b/src/prototypes.h @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifndef PROTOTYPES_H diff --git a/src/pty.c b/src/pty.c index d44a624..645492b 100644 --- a/src/pty.c +++ b/src/pty.c @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/resolver.c b/src/resolver.c index 6180113..84133cc 100644 --- a/src/resolver.c +++ b/src/resolver.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/ssl.c b/src/ssl.c index 84c79ee..7797747 100644 --- a/src/ssl.c +++ b/src/ssl.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/sthreads.c b/src/sthreads.c index de8388a..7588f61 100644 --- a/src/sthreads.c +++ b/src/sthreads.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/stunnel.c b/src/stunnel.c index bdb5dd3..3312cca 100644 --- a/src/stunnel.c +++ b/src/stunnel.c @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL diff --git a/src/verify.c b/src/verify.c index 72fcdb2..88b010b 100644 --- a/src/verify.c +++ b/src/verify.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * In addition, as a special exception, Michal Trojnara gives * permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28

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[patch] Move shared library into app specific dir
by Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

While upgrading the Debian package for stunnel, I noticed that it installs a shared library into /usr/lib/libstunnel.so This is recommended against by Debian policy, because misguided users might end up linking against it. The following (minor) patch moves the library into /usr/lib/stunnel/ which is a better location for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Index: stunnel-4.20/src/Makefile.am =================================================================== --- stunnel-4.20.orig/src/Makefile.am 2007-07-24 20:36:58.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/Makefile.am 2007-07-24 20:39:04.000000000 -0500 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ # Unix shared library -lib_LTLIBRARIES = libstunnel.la +pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = libstunnel.la libstunnel_la_SOURCES = $(shared_sources) libstunnel_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ # Additional compiler flags -AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLIBDIR='"$(libdir)"' -DCONFDIR='"$(sysconfdir)/stunnel"' -DPIDFILE='"$(prefix)/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid"' +AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLIBDIR='"$(pkglibdir)"' -DCONFDIR='"$(sysconfdir)/stunnel"' -DPIDFILE='"$(prefix)/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid"' # Win32 executable ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 2
by Saraka, Luc 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

-----Original Message----- From: stunnel-users-bounces(a)mirt.net [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@mirt.net] On Behalf Of stunnel-users-request(a)mirt.net Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:00 AM To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net Subject: stunnel-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 2 Send stunnel-users mailing list submissions to stunnel-users(a)mirt.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to stunnel-users-request(a)mirt.net You can reach the person managing the list at stunnel-users-owner(a)mirt.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of stunnel-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows (David Schulberg) 2. [RE] certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows (algol sigfrid) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:12:02 +1000 From: "David Schulberg" <davids(a)evertech.com.au> Subject: [stunnel-users] certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows To: <stunnel-users(a)mirt.net> Message-ID: <000001c7f47d$be12f030$1401a8c0@microsensexp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All, Without wishing to sound na?ve I find this whole subject area to be extraordinarily riddled with cryptic explanations of how to configure stunnel to work with a key and certificate. Using openssl I have generated a file including RSA private key and certificate which stunnel running as a server happily digests. Now I want to create the cer file that Windows will happily digest on the client side. Short of ripping the certificate out of the stunnel.pem file that I created using the command openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem what are the steps to getting that holy grail with a 'cer' extension? Please educate David ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:04:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "algol sigfrid" <m1a2(a)lycos.com> Subject: [stunnel-users] [RE] certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows To: <stunnel-users(a)mirt.net> Message-ID: <20070911220438.HM.0000000000001Lm(a)m1a2.bos-mail-wwl12.lycos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://stunnel.mirt.net/pipermail/stunnel-users/attachments/20070911/f7d 17618/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)mirt.net http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users End of stunnel-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 2 ********************************************

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certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows
by David Schulberg 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi All, Without wishing to sound naïve I find this whole subject area to be extraordinarily riddled with cryptic explanations of how to configure stunnel to work with a key and certificate. Using openssl I have generated a file including RSA private key and certificate which stunnel running as a server happily digests. Now I want to create the cer file that Windows will happily digest on the client side. Short of ripping the certificate out of the stunnel.pem file that I created using the command openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem what are the steps to getting that holy grail with a 'cer' extension? Please educate David

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[RE] certificates, openssl and stunnel on windows
by algol sigfrid 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

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Problem with stunnel 4.20 on Fedora 7
by Andrew M Dunn 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I can't get stunnel to run on a freshly-installed Fedora 7 system. It fails with "Error resolving '0.0.0.0': servname is not supported for ai_socktype" but the usual other causes of that error (ie. ports not defined in /etc/services, bad settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf) are not the culprit this time. COMMAND LINE: /usr/sbin/stunnel /home/amdunn/security/stunnel.conf COMMAND OUTPUT: 2007.08.29 11:44:12 LOG3[13614:3086243520]: Error resolving '0.0.0.0': servname is not supported for ai_socktype (EAI_SERVICE) file /home/amdunn/security/stunnel.conf line 10: Failed to resolve accepting address STUNNEL.CONF FILE: ; ; stunnel file for testing 443 access to local http server ; cert=/home/amdunn/security/xxxxxxx key=/home/amdunn/security/yyyyyyy foreground=yes ; ; [sweb] accept=443 ; https port connect=80 ; standard httpd listening port TIMEOUTclose=0 ; must set this or IE waits 60sec on page end client=no STUNNEL -VERSION OUTPUT: stunnel 4.20 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP Global options debug = 5 pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none -- Andrew M. Dunn VE3XAD Managing Director, Axis Computing Technologies Vice-President, South Simcoe Railway www.AndyDunn.CA

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Mac stunnel not attempting to connect to host
by Michael Kreykenbohm 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I'v used FreeBsd with stunnel without problem, so I'm a little stumped that it doesn't work properly on darwin for Mac. I recall that it might get hung up in the ssl certificates, but I can't find where to look and openssl -connect works perfectly. Any help, appreciated. Symptom: The stunnel is running in debug mode, the client makes a connection to stunnel, stunnel reports the connection stunnel does not attempt to connect to the host (the connect string) No messages suggest it is trying, no network logic show it is connecting. (Since I am using it for email, I can not copy and paste from the orginal to send this email) openssl connects fine to the server and get the correct results Any ideas how/ where to find out what is wrong with the Mac. Thanks stunnel 4.20 on i686-apple-darwin8.10.1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP Global options debug = 5 pid = /opt/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Certificate: /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Certificate loaded 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Key file: /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Private key loaded 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: SSL context initialized for service pop3s 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Certificate: /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Certificate loaded 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Key file: /opt/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Private key loaded 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: SSL context initialized for service smtps 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG5[207:2684407808]: stunnel 4.20 on i686-apple-darwin8.10.1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG5[207:2684407808]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG6[207:2684407808]: file ulimit = 256 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG6[207:2684407808]: FD_SETSIZE = 1024 (some systems allow to increase this value) 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG5[207:2684407808]: 125 clients allowed 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: pop3s bound to 0.0.0.0:995 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: smtps bound to 0.0.0.0:5526 2007.08.26 20:28:51 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Created pid file /tmp/stunnel.pid 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:2684407808]: pop3s accepted FD=9 from 127.0.0.1:49162 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: pop3s started 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:49162 permitted by libwrap 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG5[207:25185792]: pop3s accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:49162 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:25185792]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG7[207:2684407808]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.08.26 20:29:04 LOG6[207:2684407808]: Child process 212 finished with code 0 <<-- at this point I have done nothing but connect to the stunnel, so I don;t know why it should finished with code 0 yet, and has not closed the connect on the other side.

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[RFC,PATCH] Port stunnel to NSS
by Miloslav Trmac 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello, As a part of Fedora's atttempt to rely on a single, FIPS certified. crypto implementation[1], I have prepared a port of stunnel to NSS, activated by passing --with-nss to configure. The port relies on a currently unreleased version of nss_compat_ossl[2]. The NSS interface is rather different from OpenSSL, and many options that are configured explicitly by applications with OpenSSL are either not available to applications with NSS, or configured using external tools in a "NSS database", which stores certificates, private keys and configuration settings. In particular: - The EGD (option "EGD") is not supported. - "RSA support" (loading keys as "RSA PRIVATE KEY" instead of "ANY PRIVATE KEY") is irrelevant, keys are stored in the NSS database - DH key exchange is not supported for the server side - compression (option "compression") is not supported - OpenSSL engines (options "engine", "engineCtrl") are not supported; PKCS#11 plugins are configured in the NSS database - CRLs (options "CRLpath", "CRLfile") are not configured; all CRLs stored in the NSS database are used automatically - OCSP (options "OCSP", "OCSPflag") is not supported in the current port; NSS supports OCSP, but a CA certificate must be specified along with the OCSP URL. - OpenSSL options (option "options") are not supported - NTLM authentication for the "CONNECT" protocol is not supported because NSS currently does not implement MD4 - certificates (option "cert") are stored in the NSS database; the "cert" option contains a nickname of a certificate stored in the database - CA certificates (options "CApath", "CAfile") are stored in the NSS database - error_depth on certificate verification failure is not supported To convert an existing stunnel set up to NSS, at minimum it is necessary to: - select a NSS database directory, $SSL_DIR $ certutil -d $SSL_DIR -N - import server and CA certificates: $ certutil -d $SSL_DIR -A -n server_cert_nickname -i server_cert.pem - import server private key: $ openssl pkcs12 -export -in server_key.pem -out server_key.pfx $ pk12util -d $SSL_DIR -i server_key.pfx - modify stunnel.conf to use "server_cert_nickname" instead of path to "server_cert.pem" in "cert" - when starting stunnel, make sure $SSL_DIR is present in the environment I'm afraid the incompatibilities are large, but the current NSS design really requires a database, and it does not work well with separate files. We'd like to include this NSS port of stunnel in Fedora 8 (if it doesn't prove to be too buggy). I'll be grateful for any comments. Mirek [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation [2] http://rcritten.fedorapeople.org/nss_compat_ossl.html

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RFC3280 support
by Nagasundaram, Sekhar 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hello: I have hopefully a quick question. Does Stunnel support reason codes identified in RFC 3280? Thanks all Regards Sekhar Nagasundaram <<Nagasundaram, Sekhar.vcf>>

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Will stunnel service need to be restarted after the configuration changes.
by Zhijiang Lu 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Hi All, After some changes being made to the stunnel configuration file, do I need to restart the stunnel service to pick up the changes? I would think it is desirable to load up the new configurations, and make runtime changes correspondingly. Restarting stunnel will disrupt the currently running sessions. Thanks, -Mark

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Application level encryption or driver level encryption
by atsushi kataoka 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hi, I have to secure one of my proprietary remote connection server running on windows XP . One option is to secure using the stunnel.Other options are writing some drivers for windows. Presently we are evaluating which option is better whether to opt for application level - stunnel or go for driver - some network filter driver. Can somebody tell me what will be advantages of following application level approach. One more point what is the impact on the performance of using stunnel. Regards.

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Stunnel writing strange timestamps into my logs
by Van 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

I was looking through /var/log/messages for another reason and I notice this (representitive log snippet below) It's 10:50 am and while automount is writing messages that jibe with the correct time (see line 5 for example. This part of my log is from about 90 min ago), stunnel seems to be 4 hours ahead, labelling things as happening at about 1pm while everything else is happening about 9am. Where is stunnel getting it's time from? And why a separate source? How can I correct this? - Van Aug 10 13:13:01 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:54923 Aug 10 13:13:03 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: Connection closed: 211 bytes sent to SSL, 56 bytes sent to socket Aug 10 13:13:34 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: imaps accepted connection from XX.XX.61.109:1409 Aug 10 13:13:34 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: imaps connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:54927 Aug 10 09:14:13 <myserver> automount[30173]: >> mount: mount to NFS server 'mgm' failed: System Error: Connection timed out. Aug 10 09:14:13 <myserver> automount[30173]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure mgm:/bmgm on /nfs/bmgm Aug 10 09:14:13 <myserver> automount[30173]: failed to mount /nfs/bmgm Aug 10 13:14:18 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: Connection closed: 1013 bytes sent to SSL, 271 bytes sent to socket Aug 10 13:16:02 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s accepted connection from XX.XX.61.195:1057 Aug 10 13:16:02 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:54947 Aug 10 13:16:02 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: Connection closed: 150 bytes sent to SSL, 41 bytes sent to socket Aug 10 13:18:01 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s accepted connection from 71.167.170.42:60220 Aug 10 13:18:01 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:54948 Aug 10 13:18:03 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: Connection closed: 211 bytes sent to SSL, 56 bytes sent to socket Aug 10 13:18:39 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: imaps accepted connection from XX.XX.61.109:1410 Aug 10 13:18:39 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: imaps connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:54952 Aug 10 13:19:23 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: Connection closed: 1013 bytes sent to SSL, 271 bytes sent to socket Aug 10 09:20:31 <myserver> automount[30282]: >> mount: mount to NFS server 'mgm' failed: System Error: Connection timed out. Aug 10 09:20:31 <myserver> automount[30282]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure mgm:/bmgm on /nfs/bmgm Aug 10 09:20:31 <myserver> automount[30282]: failed to mount /nfs/bmgm Aug 10 13:23:01 <myserver> stunnel: LOG5[29760:3086109600]: pop3s accepted connection from 71.167.170.42:60225

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Tunneling though an Http proxy
by Honka 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hi there, i'm trying to set up stunnel on my laptop which I use at work, and i'm trying to tunnel to my home pc for remote desktop. The only open ports on the work network are 8080, 80 and 443. So I have setup the tunnel to port 8080 onto my home pc and had it working across the network at home. (via internal and external ip's) however it isn't working here. I am assuming because we have an http proxy which requires authentication. So i'm wondering, how can I make stunnel use and authenticate with this proxy so that it will work? Cheers Honka

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Make Install Error
by Morris Hooten - SLS Business Infrastructure 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

why do i get this when running make install at the very end? i'm trying to install in a full root solaris 10 zone thanks SunOS mknod: Not owner chmod: WARNING: can't access /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

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Make Install Error
by Morris Hooten - SLS Business Infrastructure 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

why do i get this when running make install at the very end? thanks SunOS mknod: Not owner chmod: WARNING: can't access /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

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Make Install Error
by Morris Hooten - SLS Business Infrastructure 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

why do i get this when running make install at the very end? thanks SunOS mknod: Not owner chmod: WARNING: can't access /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/stunnel/stunnel-4.20/tools' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

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Stunnel message about SSL_shutdown/SSL_get_error
by Lachance, Mario 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, I have been using openssl_0.9.7g and stunnel_4.10 on Solaris 9 without problem for 2 years in a production environment. I want to upgrade to openssl_0.9.8e and stunnel_4.20 on solaris 10. I have done some test on a development system and I have seen a new message in stunnel log file. Old message with openssl_0.9.7g and stunnel_4.10 on Solaris 9 was : Aug 3 14:51:58 solario stunnel[345]: [ID 702911 local6.notice] Too many retries on SSL shutdown New message with openssl_0.9.8e and stunnel_4.20 on solaris 10 is : Aug 3 14:42:30 daprxuu stunnel: [ID 821868 local6.error] LOG3[20957:4]: SSL_shutdown/SSL_get_error returned 6 I don't know if this new message has replaced the old one I was getting. Can someone tell me what is behind this message "_shutdown/SSL_get_error returned 6"? Please note that I am able to transfer message with both system (stunnel 4.10 and stunnel 4.20) from a windows client without any apparent problem. Thank you for your help, Mario Avis de confidentialité: Ce message est confidentiel, protégé par le secret professionnel et à l'usage exclusif du destinataire. Toute autre personne est avisée qu'il lui est strictement interdit de le diffuser, distribuer ou reproduire. Si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur, avisez-nous immédiatement par téléphone et effacez toute copie. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is confidential, privileged and intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any other person is strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing or reproducing it. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please notify us immediately by telephone and delete all copies.

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel hanging during negotation with an smtp server
by Hans Werner Strube 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Jason J. Corso wrote: > [ssmtp] > accept = 127.0.0.1:25 > connect = xxxxxx:465 > protocol = smtp > ------- > > However, when I try to send a mail, it appears to hang while > negotiating with the remote server. Here is the output: ... > 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: Negotiations for smtp(server > side) started > 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: RFC 2487 detected Your stunnel seems to be running in server mode. For client mode, add client = yes Also, if you need pure SSL rather than TLS negotiation, remove protocol = smtp

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stunnel hanging during negotation with an smtp server
by Jason J. Corso 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Please help: I'm trying to use stunnel to connect to a secure SMTP server -- I'm using MS Entourage 2004 on an Intel 10.4 Mac. Entourage cannot connect directly to the SMTP server over SSL because it no longer supports NTLM version 1 authentication, which the SMTP server uses. I believe stunnel can be used to workaround this problem (if I'm wrong, please say so), i.e., Entourage can connect locally to stunnel which will then connect to the remote server over SSL properly. I built and installed stunnel version 4.04-12 via Fink (compiled from source via Fink) and OpenSSL 0.9.7i-4 also via Fink. I have the following configuration file: ------ # Comment it out on Win32 cert = /sw/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem chroot = /sw/var/run/stunnel/ # PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup # Some debugging stuff debug = 7 output = /dev/stdout foreground = yes [ssmtp] accept = 127.0.0.1:25 connect = xxxxxx:465 protocol = smtp ------- However, when I try to send a mail, it appears to hang while negotiating with the remote server. Here is the output: 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG5[5511:2684407808]: stunnel 4.04 on i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14 Oct 2005 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: Snagged 64 random bytes from xxx/.rnd 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to xxx/.rnd 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG6[5511:2684407808]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: Certificate: /sw/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: Key file: /sw/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG5[5511:2684407808]: FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=256 -> 125 clients allowed 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: ssmtp bound to 127.0.0.1:25 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.07.31 15:41:19 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: Created pid file /stunnel.pid 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: ssmtp accepted FD=9 from 127.0.0.1:50091 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:2684407808]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: ssmtp started 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG5[5511:25183744]: ssmtp connected from 127.0.0.1:50091 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: ssmtp connecting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:465 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: remote connect #1: EINPROGRESS: retrying 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: waitforsocket: FD=10, DIR=write 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: waitforsocket: ok 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: Remote FD=10 initialized 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: Negotiations for smtp(server side) started 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: RFC 2487 detected 2007.07.31 15:41:25 LOG7[5511:25183744]: waitforsocket: FD=10, DIR=read ********* HANGS HERE *********** ...and I have to kill it. I am very new to stunnel and openssl. So, I may be making a simple mistake. But, I could not find the solution on the mailing list or the web. What am I doing wrong? To be clear, the server is using SSL for SMTP. I am able to send mail directly via the smtp server from other mail clients like Thunderbird. Thanks. Any help is much appreciated. Jason

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Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel Scalability Question
by Ankur Upadhyaya 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi Michal, Thank you for your help with this. My stunnel -version output can be found below. Ankur stunnel 4.20 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Global options debug = 5 pid = /usr/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none

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Stunnel on Freebsd not running
by The Volo 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

i recently installed the latest stable version 4.20 on a shell running freebsd, i dont have root i had to install it on my account. Compile was successfull, i renamed the default stunnel.conf.. and edited it, i am running stunnel as a client and added this line at the end of stunnel.conf: [eggdrop] accept = 127.0.0.1:12345 connect = irc.efnet.net:6667 when i run stunnel it doesnt do nothing besides sending me to a new bash command line.. [volo@partyline (~/)]$ /home/volo/stunnel/sbin/stunnel /home/volo/stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf [volo@partyline (~/)]$ I type ps -x to see if stunnel is running but i dont see it on the list and no pid file exist either. Any ideas on how i can fix this ? i dont see what i am doing wrong trying to run stunnel.. Trying to run stunnel to connect to irc and my eggdrop to connect to stunnel access ip:port thanks

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Automatically Stopping Stunnel
by Brian Mander 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

We have stunnel configured to accept connections on a port from an outside company and forward it to a port where we have a tcplistener set up. The problem is that if our tcplistener goes down the company sending us info does not have their software configured to know if we get their info or not. Is there a way to stop allowing connections or shut stunnel down if it can not connect to the port. I hope this is enough information. Brian Mander Programmer Analyst II Omni Hotels (402) 952-6564 bmander(a)omnihotels.com <mailto:bmander@omnihotels.com> Learn more about Omni Hotels sensational summer vacation packages <http://www.omnihotels.com/exclusiveoffers/summer07.aspx> ideal for exploring great destinations with family and friends.

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Stunnel Scalability Question
by Ankur Upadhyaya 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi, I have an application with the following characteristics and am trying to determine if Stunnel would be a suitable option for securing my transmissions (in particular, will it scale): - Each of my clients is connected to the Internet via a 56Kbps modem. My server has whatever bandwidth it needs. - Each client "transaction" consists of (a) connecting to a central server using a TCP/IP-based protocol, (b) uploading a 512KB block of data and (c) disconnecting. - Our server needs to be able to handle 2000 concurrent clients under peak loads. - Under the peak load above, I would like to limit the time a client takes to perform a "transaction" to around five minutes or so (uploading 512KB at (56Kbps / 2) = 28Kbps should take ~2.5 minutes). My questions are: (1) Do I have any reason to believe that Stunnel will simply not be able to scale to handle the load described above (i.e. a steady load of 2000 concurrent clients connecting, uploading half a megabyte of data and disconnecting)? (2) If Stunnel can handle this - do you have any thoughts on what sort of machine (or machines) I should be running my server-side Stunnel daemon(s) on? I am particularly concerned about CPU usage. I apologize in advance for any overlap between this query and past threads in the archive/information on the website - I wanted to make sure that I ran the specific requirements above past somebody with experience using Stunnel. Thanks, Ankur

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bind error
by ictforever 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hi,I use stunnel 4.20 with syslog-ng 2.0,os is centos 5.0.but there are bind errors: ........................... 2007.06.22 05:56:36 LOG7[2898:3086632640]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.06.22 05:56:36 LOG3[2898:3086632640]: Error binding 5141 to 192.168.0.1:5141 2007.06.22 05:56:36 LOG3[2898:3086632640]: bind: Cannot assign requested address (99) The stunnel conf : ............................ cert = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/syslog-ng-server.pem CAfile = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/syslog-ng-client.pem [5141] accept = 192.168.0.1:5141 connect = 127.0.0.1:514 How to correct it?Any suggestion and advice are appreciated. Thanks. Regards.

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stunnel on windows 2003
by John M. Andre 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

I've looked around the site, through the help file, and through the archives but I still can't find the answer to my question. I hope someone on this list can give me some insight. I am new to SSL but I have a brand new server and I'm trying to set it up to use stunnel to secure communications over POP, IMAP, SMTP, etc. However, as I look through the documentation, it is clearly written for unix admins. Is there anything that will guide someone how to setup stunnel on windows? Ideally a step-by-step but anything would be nice. Thanks, John

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Out-of-band data
by Richard's Hotmail 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi, In the Stunnel FAQ (see snippet below) it says that STUNNEL does not support OOB processing (except if OOB is set to in-line); can someone please tell me if this restriction is still in place? Does OpenSSL not support the sending and receiving of the OOB character? Some other restriction? Cheers Richard Maher Can I use stunnel to protect [insert random protocol here]? Stunnel should be able to secure any random protocol as long as the protocol satisfies the following requirements: 1.. The protocol is TCP, not UDP. 2.. The protocol doesn't use multiple connections, like ftp. 3.. The protocol doesn't depend on Out Of Band (OOB) data, 4.. Remote site can't use an application-specific protocol, like ssltelnet, where SSL is a negotiated option, save for those protocols already supported by the -n argument to Stunnel.

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HTTPS Connect patches for 4.20
by Gym Crazy 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Hi Folks Wonder if you can help me. A predecessor of mine set up stunnel version 4.05 on OpenBSD 3.8. He didn't leave much documentation unfortunately. He also used a patch and re-compiled it. That patch was connect-proxy.mwald.patch. We are getting some performance issues and want to of course move to the latest stable stunnel release 4.20, before asking for any help but we are in a bit of a bind. We are firstly not sure if there is an updated connect-proxy.mwald.patch that works well with stunnel 4.20 (I have searched and searched but can't seem to find any). Or else if there is a patch that performs the same type of function as connect-proxy.mwald.patch but that is stable to use with stunnel 4.20. Any help would be greatly appreciated :-D Regards Paul H ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz

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Re: [stunnel-users] Certificates and public/private keys
by Dario Teixeira 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

> Should you not be looking at > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html > and > https://www.opensc-project.org/files/doc/apache-client-authentication(v0 > .5.1).pdf Hi, Thanks for the reply! I didn't mention it before, but I won't be using Apache or any other mainstream webserver. Most likely I will be using Ocsigen (http://www.ocsigen.org/). Now, the latest development release of Ocsigen already has basic support for SSL, but it can't handle yet client authentication. In short, I am still looking for an stunnel-based solution. Any ideas? Thanks again for your time and attention! Cheers, Dario ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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HTTPS Connect patches for 4.20
by Gym Crazy 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hi Folks Wonder if you can help me. A predecessor of mine set up stunnel version 4.05 on OpenBSD 3.8. He didn't leave much documentation unfortunately. He also used a patch and re-compiled it. That patch was connect-proxy.mwald.patch. We are getting some performance issues and want to of course move to the latest stable stunnel release 4.20, before asking for any help but we are in a bit of a bind. We are firstly not sure if there is an updated connect-proxy.mwald.patch that works well with stunnel 4.20 (I have searched and searched but can't seem to find any). Or else if there is a patch that performs the same type of function as connect-proxy.mwald.patch but that is stable to use with stunnel 4.20. Any help would be greatly appreciated :-D Regards Paul H ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/

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Certificates and public/private keys
by Dario Teixeira 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Dear Stunnel users, I have a webserver running on a machine behind a firewall. I can easily punch a hole on the firewall, allowing any user on the Internet to access the webserver. However, I want to restrict access *only* to some people, those in possession of a secret key. At first sight, this seems like a job for plain ssh tunneling rather than stunnel, but as far as I understand it, ssh tunnels require that the connecting users have an account on the server machine. That won't happen here. It seems that stunnel is therefore more appropriate for this particular problem. Now, the port forwarding mechanics seem similar to those in ssh. I have no problems understanding those. The only problems I am having are figuring out the generation of keys. My excuses if I am using a terminology based on ssh or if I am way off about the capabilities of stunnel, but how can I generate the server's private and public keys? (the latter to be handed out to the clients) I have followed the instructions in the README.Debian file that accompanies the Debian stunnel4 package to produce a stunnel.pem certificate. With it, I have successfully established a stunnel connection between two machines. However, I have to use the same stunnel.pem file on both the client and the server, which strikes me as dangerous. Which parts are really needed on the client and server? Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers, Dario ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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Preferred way to start stunnel @boot time
by Van 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

So I've got stunnel running perfectly on my linux server to forward ssl requests to my pop and imap ports. I need to make sure this happens automatically if the machine is rebooted. On the stunnel site it talks about running stunnel either as a daemon or running stunnel out of xinetd. I was just wondering, which way do people using it out there think is preferable? And why? Neither seems as direct or simple as putting @reboot root /sbin/start_stunnel into my crontab, which is what I did (start_stunnel being a shell script with the proper command and some comments). Just another uneventful way to do the same thing? -Van

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Java Applet Client for STUNNEL-fronted server
by Richard's Hotmail 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hi, I'm new to the list and apologize if this question is inappropriate, or quite basic, but I really hope someone can help. I currently have an intranet-resident JAVA Applet that connects back to the Application Server via standard TCP/IP sockets using the java.net.Socket class, and everything is peachy. What I'm looking at doing now is making it Internet friendly by providing host authentication (don't care about client authentication at the mo) and strong cryptography between client and server. OpenSSL and Stunnel (I don't want to have to make the Application Server SSL compatible if I don't have to) are available on the server box therefore I would dearly love an example of a JAVA client that can talk javax.net.SSL (or something else) to a Stunnel-fronted server. (Less is definitely more here - The least number of client keys and or certificate-generations the better!) Can anyone please help me with this? Obviously example-code would be ideal, as would first-hand accounts of the trials and tribulations, but I'll certainly settle for web-references to the appropriate docs or other relevant material! Are all the JSSE libraries/code reqd bundled with the JDK and runtime JVM ready? Is there a better way? (Sadly IPsec is not an option here) Maybe there's an alternate solution that can preserve the client's true IP address and present it to the Application Server's "Listen"? Cheers Richard Maher

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Re: [stunnel-users] Trying to get stunnel to work for forwarding pop3sto ipop3 port
by Van 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Getting closer. I now get- [van@mailserver ]$ sudo stunnel /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf localhost:ipop3 2007.06.21 11:51:27 LOG4[15899:3086476992]: Wrong permissions on /usr/ local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.06.21 11:51:27 LOG4[15899:3086476992]: Wrong permissions on /usr/ local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.06.21 11:51:27 LOG4[15899:3086476992]: Wrong permissions on /usr/ local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem But that doesn't make sense to me. mail.pem permissions are the same as my cert's and it works fine. [van@mailserver change_passwd]$ ls -al /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2942 Jun 20 18:21 /usr/local/etc/stunnel/ mail.pem [van@mailserver change_passwd]$ ls -al /etc/httpd/certs/www.crt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1074 Jun 1 12:30 /etc/httpd/certs/www.crt Is the error misleading? Or what should the mail.pem perms be? Van On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Kevin Cook wrote: > > If you are using a stunnel.conf file, I would replace the '-d pop3s > -r' > with the absolute path to the .conf file: > > sudo /usr/local/sbin/stunnel /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf > > I believe command line options were typically used more in older > versions, but now all configuration is done in the configuration file. > > > Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Van [mailto:vanyel@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:03 PM > To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > Subject: [stunnel-users] Trying to get stunnel to work for forwarding > pop3sto ipop3 port > > Hello, > > This is my introduction to stunnel. I've inherited control of a > pop3 and > imap server running Red Hat Linux 4 that I want to access via pop3s > and > imaps. I'm starting out with securing the pop3 since most users are > using it. > > I downloaded stunnel 4.20 and compiled it according to the > instructions > on stunnel.org. > > I read the certificates section of the site and made a new .pem file > that I named mail.pem and have in the /usr/local/etc/stunnel/ > directory > that /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf asks for. But when I try to > run stunnel like in the Examples section I get : > > [van@mailserver ~]$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -d pop3s -r > localhost:ipop3 > 2007.06.20 17:59:54 LOG3[25516:3086419648]: -d: No such file or > directory (2) > Syntax: > stunnel [<filename>] ] -fd <n> | -help | -version | -sockets > <filename> - use specified config file instead of /usr/local/ > etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf > -fd <n> - read the config file from a file descriptor > -help - get config file help > -version - display version and defaults > -sockets - display default socket options > > I'm a little lost here. Never dealt with a .pem file before stunnel. > I have a self-signed cert I'm successfully using for https webmail on > the server and guessing stunnel couldn't see that, I appended my file > 'mailserver.crt' into my mail.pem file and edited stunnel.conf so it > has > > ;CAfile = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/certs.pem CAfile = > /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem > > but no dice. Same result. > > Trying to debug, I find 'stunnel -V' also gives the same result. > > Can someone point out what's going wrong? > > > -Van > _______________________________________________ > stunnel-users mailing list > stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users > >

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Trying to get stunnel to work for forwarding pop3s to ipop3 port
by Van 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hello, This is my introduction to stunnel. I've inherited control of a pop3 and imap server running Red Hat Linux 4 that I want to access via pop3s and imaps. I'm starting out with securing the pop3 since most users are using it. I downloaded stunnel 4.20 and compiled it according to the instructions on stunnel.org. I read the certificates section of the site and made a new .pem file that I named mail.pem and have in the /usr/local/etc/stunnel/ directory that /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf asks for. But when I try to run stunnel like in the Examples section I get : [van@mailserver ~]$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -d pop3s -r localhost:ipop3 2007.06.20 17:59:54 LOG3[25516:3086419648]: -d: No such file or directory (2) Syntax: stunnel [<filename>] ] -fd <n> | -help | -version | -sockets <filename> - use specified config file instead of /usr/local/ etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -fd <n> - read the config file from a file descriptor -help - get config file help -version - display version and defaults -sockets - display default socket options I'm a little lost here. Never dealt with a .pem file before stunnel. I have a self-signed cert I'm successfully using for https webmail on the server and guessing stunnel couldn't see that, I appended my file 'mailserver.crt' into my mail.pem file and edited stunnel.conf so it has ;CAfile = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/certs.pem CAfile = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem but no dice. Same result. Trying to debug, I find 'stunnel -V' also gives the same result. Can someone point out what's going wrong? -Van

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stunnel client mode and CA chains
by Domenico Andreoli 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hi, I have always successfully used openssl/stunnel but now I am facing a new problem, a variation of the usual client-side authentication documentented everywhere. I have a root CA and child CA which is signed by the root one. I have also a client certificate that is signed only by the child CA. In order to verify the certificate signature using openssl I need to specify both the CA certificates, this works as expected. What I would like to achieve is to authenticate the clients using a stunnel server having only the root CA certificate. Is there some stunnel client configuration switch that allows to push the child CA certificate? One looking interesting is (from the manpage): cert = pemfile certificate chain PEM file name A PEM is always needed in server mode. Specifying this flag in client mode will use this certificate chain as a client side certificate chain. Using client side certs is optional. The certificates must be in PEM format and must be sorted starting with the certificate to the highest level (root CA). in particular "The certificates must be in PEM format and must be sorted starting with the certificate to the highest level (root CA)" lets me hope but I am not able to understand how it works. I made many tries but on server side I always get a "VERIFY ERROR: depth=1, error=invalid CA certificate:" referring to the child CA certificate and then a "SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned" followed by connection shutdown. Supposing the client private key is in a separate file, if I put the certificates in the order specified by the manpage I get a key mismatching error upon stunnel startup. If instead I put the client certificate as first, then server do not authenticate it. Where am I wrong? I cannot change the server configuration, it must work as it is. I have hundreds of them and I can update them only using the SSL connection. Thanks for any help. Regards, Domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50

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Issue with Stunnel / TCP Wrappers
by Kevin Cook 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

I have been a user of Stunnel for several years, but as of recent need to be able to deny TCP/IP requests dynamically on an IP address basis. I am attempting to use TCP wrappers, but not getting it to work with Stunnel. The Solaris 9 implementation I am using currently runs in a chroot'ed environment, so I am placing the hosts.deny file in this path (/chrootpath/etc/hosts.deny), as well as /usr/etc per everything I have read. This is not working. I am using a non-standard port not defined in /etc/services (29444). Any ideas?

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stunnel autostart at boot
by Grant Kohler 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Has anybody created a startup script to load stunnel when a machine boots? Thanks, -Grant

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Re: [stunnel-users] [PATCH?] Senting a list of accepted CAs to the client
by Kevin Martin 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Has anyone any information on this? It affects the ability of Thunderbird users (in this case) to use secure communications with IMAP mail servers using TLS/SSL. Please see the bugzillas below. Thanks. Kevin Martin https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237962 and list posting from 4/2007: Hello, stunnel currently does not send a list of accepted CAs, see e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327001 Sending the list was #if 0-ed out sometime between stunnel 3.22 and 4.00, with no change log entry AFAICS. Does anyone remember know why was it disabled, and whether it is safe to reenable (e. g. using the attached patch)? Thanks, Mirek <patch snipped>...see the list posting from 4/2007 above for the attached patch.

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regarding CRLpath
by piyush tewari 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Hi, I m using crl but it is woking only in the case of using CRLfile. That is when I use the CRLfile , the client having the revoked certificate is now not able to connect to the server. But when I m providing the CRLpath in the stunnel config file , the client is still able to connect. That is CRL is working in the case of CRLfile entry and not working in the case of CRLpath. The entry that i have specified is CRLpath = C:\Stunnel\debug\revoked So where is the flaw. I know that in case of the CRLfile , it is necessary to restart the stunnel , whenever the CRL changes. But in case of CRLpath , whether it is necessary to restart the stunnel or not. regards piyush --------------------------------- You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Problem with 'verify=3'
by Koenraad Lelong 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I would like to have a secure access to a Firebird database server. When I configure verify = 2 on the server I can connect, but I would like to have verify = 3 and this does not work. This is my stunnel.conf : client = no foreground = yes setuid = stunnel setgid = nogroup pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 verify = 3 CApath = /etc/stunnel/certs/ CAfile = /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem cert = /etc/stunnel/server.pem [firebird] accept = 3052 connect = localhost:gds_db output of stunnel -version : stunnel 4.14 on i686-suse-linux-gnu PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 Global options cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH debug = 5 key = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem pid = /var/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes session = 300 seconds verify = none Service-level options TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds I'm running OpenSuse 10.1 on the server. This is the log when I can't connect (verify = 3) : 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: stunnel 4.14 on i686-suse-linux-gnu PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/server.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/server.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Loaded verify certificates from /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Verify directory set to /etc/stunnel/certs/ 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: Peer certificate location /etc/stunnel/certs/ 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: 500 clients allowed 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird bound to 0.0.0.0:3052 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Created pid file /var/run/stunnel.pid 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird accepted FD=8 from 192.168.0.13:25651 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird started 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: Child process 15152 finished with code 0 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: Connection from 192.168.0.13:25651 permitted by libwrap 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: firebird connected from 192.168.0.13:25651 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=Certificate Authority/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG4[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY ERROR ONLY MY: no cert for /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=client/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL alert (write): fatal: certificate unknown 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG3[15150:3083049888]: SSL_accept: 140890B2: error:140890B2:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird finished (0 left) 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird accepted FD=8 from 192.168.0.13:25653 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird started 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: Child process 15154 finished with code 0 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: Connection from 192.168.0.13:25653 permitted by libwrap 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: firebird connected from 192.168.0.13:25653 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=Certificate Authority/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG4[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY ERROR ONLY MY: no cert for /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=client/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL alert (write): fatal: certificate unknown 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG3[15150:3083049888]: SSL_accept: 140890B2: error:140890B2:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird finished (0 left) 2007.06.05 13:19:09 LOG3[15150:3083052720]: Received signal 2; terminating 2007.06.05 13:19:09 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: removing pid file /var/run/stunnel.pid I put the client cert in /etc/stunnel/certs and I ran 'c_rehash /etc/stunnel/certs'. What am I missing ? Thanks for any input. Regards, Koenraad Lelong.

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Problem with verify = 3
by Koenraad Lelong 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I would like to have a secure access to a Firebird database server. When I configure verify = 2 on the server I can connect, but I would like to have verify = 3 and this does not work. This is my stunnel.conf : client = no foreground = yes setuid = stunnel setgid = nogroup pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 verify = 3 CApath = /etc/stunnel/certs/ CAfile = /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem cert = /etc/stunnel/server.pem [firebird] accept = 3052 connect = localhost:gds_db output of stunnel -version : stunnel 4.14 on i686-suse-linux-gnu PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 Global options cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH debug = 5 key = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem pid = /var/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes session = 300 seconds verify = none Service-level options TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds I'm running OpenSuse 10.1 on the server. This is the log when I can't connect (verify = 3) : 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: stunnel 4.14 on i686-suse-linux-gnu PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/server.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/server.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Loaded verify certificates from /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Verify directory set to /etc/stunnel/certs/ 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: Peer certificate location /etc/stunnel/certs/ 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG5[15150:3083052720]: 500 clients allowed 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird bound to 0.0.0.0:3052 2007.06.05 13:18:55 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Created pid file /var/run/stunnel.pid 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird accepted FD=8 from 192.168.0.13:25651 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird started 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: Child process 15152 finished with code 0 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: Connection from 192.168.0.13:25651 permitted by libwrap 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: firebird connected from 192.168.0.13:25651 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=Certificate Authority/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG4[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY ERROR ONLY MY: no cert for /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=client/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL alert (write): fatal: certificate unknown 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG3[15150:3083049888]: SSL_accept: 140890B2: error:140890B2:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned 2007.06.05 13:19:02 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird finished (0 left) 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: firebird accepted FD=8 from 192.168.0.13:25653 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird started 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG6[15150:3083052720]: Child process 15154 finished with code 0 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: Connection from 192.168.0.13:25653 permitted by libwrap 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: firebird connected from 192.168.0.13:25653 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG5[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=Certificate Authority/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG4[15150:3083049888]: VERIFY ERROR ONLY MY: no cert for /C=BE/ST=Vlaams Brabant/L=Diest/O=ACE electronics n.v./OU=IT/CN=client/emailAddress=postmaster.ace-electronics.be 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: SSL alert (write): fatal: certificate unknown 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG3[15150:3083049888]: SSL_accept: 140890B2: error:140890B2:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned 2007.06.05 13:19:04 LOG7[15150:3083049888]: firebird finished (0 left) 2007.06.05 13:19:09 LOG3[15150:3083052720]: Received signal 2; terminating 2007.06.05 13:19:09 LOG7[15150:3083052720]: removing pid file /var/run/stunnel.pid I put the client cert in /etc/stunnel/certs and I ran 'c_rehash /etc/stunnel/certs'. What am I missing ? Thanks for any input. Regards, Koenraad Lelong.

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certificate revocation
by piyush tewari 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi , I am using Stunnel to protect one of my server. I am able to configure the stunnel properly with the help of stunnel. Now i am trying to use the revocation list concept in the stunnel. For using the stunnel revocation list i performed the following steps. 1. for generating the CRL file openssl ca -gencrl -keyfile ca_key -cert ca_crt -out my_crl.pem 2. for revoking the certificates openssl ca -revoke bad_crt_file -keyfile ca_key -cert ca_crt The entry specified in the stunnel.conf file is:- CRLfile = my_crl.pem Surprisingly the client is still able to connect to the server. Is it the problem in my configuration or it is a bug of stunnel. Regards, Piyush --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.

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plz help me in debugging the code
by piyush tewari 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hello Friends, I am facing problems in debugging the source code of stunnel. the behaviour of the code is very unexpected for me. the return statement is not returning from the function. (Line 145 of gui.c file). Sameway when i debug line no 1266 of the options.c , that is "name=default_config_file;" , the df pointer gets it's value that means it is executing another line , line no 1305 of options.c itself "df=file_open(name, 0);". I am not getting this working of the stunnel code. And the other problem that i m facing is that during the debugging , many variables are not showing their occupied value. So please help me in understanding this working and resolving it. Thank you.. Regards Piyush --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-4.20 server loop on AIX 5.3
by Peter Heimann 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara(a)mobi-com.net> wrote on 31.05.2007 20:48:08: > An alternative workaround would be changing: > continue; > to: > sleep(1); > continue; If OpenSSL has been compiled with IBM cc, most new stunnel connections then result in EAGAIN once. sleep(1) seems to prevent an endless loop, but most requests now need at least one second to be processed. Compiling OpenSSL with IBM xlc_r, as you proposed, is definitely the better solution and prevents the EAGAIN errors. -- Regards Peter Heimann _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-4.20 server loop on AIX 5.3
by Peter Heimann 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara(a)mobi-com.net> wrote on 31.05.2007 20:48:08: > On Monday 28 May 2007 20:51, Peter Heimann wrote: > > Under heavy usage, stunnel-4.20 on AIX 5.3 enters into a loop with high > > CPU load. > > SSL_accept() returns with error, SSL_get_error() returns 5 > > (SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL). get_last_socket_error() returns EAGAIN, and the loop > > continues without end. Nevertheless, new connection requests still get > > processed. > Could it be the problem described at the end of this page: > https://www.systinet.com/doc/ssc-65/waspc/html/extlibs.install.openssl.html Indeed. Further experiments on AIX 5.3: OpenSSL 0.9.8e configured as "./Configure no-idea threads", compiled with "cc" (IBM XL C Compiler 7.0), stunnel 4.20 --> loop in init_ssl() OpenSSL 0.9.8e configured as "./Configure no-idea threads", compiled with "xlc_r" (IBM XL C Compiler 7.0, thread-safe variant), stunnel 4.20 --> no problem OpenSSL 0.9.8e configured as "./Configure no-idea threads", compiled with "gcc" (GCC version 4.1.1), stunnel 4.20 --> no problem Thanks for the hint. -- Regards Peter Heimann _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192

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Plz help the n00b (syslog-ng & stunnel)
by F.M. Taylor 31 May '07

31 May '07

Greetings all. Seemed simple enough, but I can seem to get it to work. I have obviously missed something simple. Here is the info you will need (and probably some you won't). I have tried every combination of options I can think of, and I have searched the archives and the web. It looks like it is almost working, but the server I am trying to connect to never sees the data (however "they" have it working on "their" systems, so it must be me). "They" say it connects, talks a little, no real data xfer, closes, then more data (followed by the obligatory TCP_RSTs for dead connects). [insert begging] [root@bofh stunnel-4.20]# stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: Configuration SSL options: 0x00000FFF 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: SSL options set: 0x00000FFF 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: SSL context initialized for service 5140 [root@bofh stunnel-4.20]# tail -f /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG5[20728:182894198944]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG6[20728:182894198944]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG6[20728:182894198944]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG5[20728:182894198944]: 500 clients allowed 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20728:182894198944]: 5140 bound to 127.0.0.1:5140 2007.05.25 10:43:00 LOG7[20729:182894198944]: Created pid file /var/run/stunnel4/stunnel.pid 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:182894198944]: 5140 accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:64820 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 5140 started 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:64820 permitted by libwrap 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:182894198944]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG5[20729:1073809760]: 5140 accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:64820 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG6[20729:182894198944]: Child process 20748 finished with code 0 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 5140 connecting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5140 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: connect_wait: connected 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG5[20729:1073809760]: 5140 connected remote server from 192.168.2.23:64821 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: Remote FD=8 initialized 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 1 items in the session cache 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 1 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 1 client connects that finished 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 client renegotiations requested 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 server connects that finished 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 server renegotiations requested 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 session cache hits 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 session cache misses 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 0 session cache timeouts 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG6[20729:1073809760]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG6[20729:1073809760]: Negotiated ciphers: AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL alert (read): warning: close notify 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL closed on SSL_read 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: Socket write shutdown 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL write shutdown 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: SSL alert (write): warning: close notify 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG6[20729:1073809760]: SSL_shutdown successfully sent close_notify 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG5[20729:1073809760]: Connection closed: 303 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.05.25 10:43:29 LOG7[20729:1073809760]: 5140 finished (0 left) /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 pid = /var/run/stunnel4/stunnel.pid socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log [5140] client = yes options = ALL accept = 127.0.0.1:5140 connect = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5140 [root@bofh stunnel-4.20]# tail /var/log/syslog May 25 10:57:35 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: EOF occurred while idle; fd='11' May 25 10:57:35 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: Connection broken; time_reopen='60' May 25 10:58:37 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: EOF occurred while idle; fd='11' May 25 10:58:37 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: Connection broken; time_reopen='60' May 25 10:59:38 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: EOF occurred while idle; fd='11' May 25 10:59:38 bofh syslog-ng[1926]: Connection broken; time_reopen='60' -- ......\\|//........^^^^^........)))((........%%%%%........,,,,,...... ......(- -)........(o o)........(- o)........(0-0)........(* *)...... +--ooO-(_)-Ooo--oo0-(_)-0oo--ooO-(_)-Ooo--oo0-(_)-0oo--ooO-(_)-Ooo--+ | F.M. 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Please help in difficulty in debugging the Stunnel code
by piyush tewari 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello Friends, I am facing problems in debugging the source code of stunnel. When i debug line no 1266 of the options.c , that is "name=default_config_file;" , the df pointer gets it's value that means it is executing another line , line no 1305 of options.c itself "df=file_open(name, 0);". I am not getting this working of the stunnel code. And the other problem that i m facing is that during the debugging , many variables are not showing their occupied value. So please help me in understanding this working and resolving it. Thank you very much in advance for this help. warm regards Pkt --------------------------------- Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection.

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stunnel-4.20 server loop on AIX 5.3
by Peter Heimann 28 May '07

28 May '07

Under heavy usage, stunnel-4.20 on AIX 5.3 enters into a loop with high CPU load. Test setup: client ------------> gateway ------------> server ApacheBench 2.0.40-dev stunnel-4.20 Apache 1.3 in server mode OpenSSL 0.9.8d stunnel 4.20 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0 with OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 ; stunnel configuration file, server mode cert = /etc/stunnel.pem setuid = stunnel setgid = stunnel pid = /tmp/stunnel.pid debug = local3.notice output = /tmp/stunnel.log [https] accept = gateway:4433 connect = server:80 The first client requests are processed without error, then some connections fail: % ab -n 1000 -c 70 https://gateway:4433/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 [...] Test aborted after 10 failures Apr_socket_connect(): Invalid argument (22) Total of 705 requests completed One or more connections stay in state CLOSE_WAIT, and stunnel is chewing away CPU cycles (CPU usage >99%). % lsof -a -i -c stunnel COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME stunnel 196856 stunnel 6u IPv4 0xf100020002feeb98 0t0 TCP gateway:4433 (LISTEN) stunnel 196856 stunnel 46u IPv4 0xf100020002e98398 0t0 TCP gateway:4433 ->server:50271 (CLOSE_WAIT) In this state, attaching a debugger shows that stunnel is stuck in a loop in init_ssl() within client.c: +321 while(1) { +322 if(c->opt->option.client) +323 i=SSL_connect(c->ssl); +324 else +325 i=SSL_accept(c->ssl); +326 err=SSL_get_error(c->ssl, i); /* err==5 */ /* ... */ +349 if(err==SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL) { +350 switch(get_last_socket_error()) { +351 case EINTR: +353 case EAGAIN: /* loop continues */ +354 continue; +355 } +356 } SSL_accept() returns with error, SSL_get_error() returns 5 (SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL). get_last_socket_error() returns EAGAIN, and the loop continues without end. Nevertheless, new connection requests still get processed. Even before CPU usage goes up, for every new connection, SSL_accept() results in SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL for 20 to 1800 times before finally data is exchanged. stunnel enters this endless loop on AIX both with OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e. If I replace the AIX gateway machine with one running stunnel-4.20 on Solaris, I do not experience any problems. What might trigger this loop on AIX 5.3? How can it be avoided? -- Peter Heimann _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192

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Reconfiguration while running
by James Moe 27 May '07

27 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Does Stunnel offer a way to reload the configuration file? Usually that is done with SIGHUP but the code looks like it just terminates. Does it have a way to sense that the conf has changed and reloads it? Or must Stunnel be terminated and restarted? - -- jimoe (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (OS/2) iD8DBQFGWhbJzTcr8Prq0ZMRAoy8AJ4ocDWfBEvEfoIYoypURg2hTxUh0gCfajo1 nVXpKD5iBFEx6ZHauPemnsU= =vGul -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Quick question relating to end to end encryption with hapoxy:
by lists 27 May '07

27 May '07

I'm using stunnel to decrypt HTTPS and pass it to HAPROXY to insert a cookie and it works very well and very fast. Is their a way of making HAPROXY talk to the backend servers in HTTPS? i.e.. End to end encryption. Can I re-direct it back through stunnel in reverse? Thanks in advance, Malcolm.

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Brocken Connections
by Manfred Alfaré 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi! I have some trouble using STUNNEL on WIN98 to secure connections to HFS (Http File Server), and hope, somebody can help me. I can connect to HFS with the Browser (Firefox 2.0.0.3, IE 6.0, on the same machine HFS is running, an other one in LAN and a third via internet) and download files, bat every downloaded File is corrupt. In most cases, transfer seems to terminate normally, but the downloaded file ist to short, sometimes there is popup, that tells me, that the file could not be read, because the connection is broken. The log file shows the following: ********************************* stunnel 4.20 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv4 No limit detected for the number of clients https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63819 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1287 Connection closed: 1632 bytes sent to SSL, 476 bytes sent to socket https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63821 https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63823 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1290 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1291 Connection closed: 919 bytes sent to SSL, 349 bytes sent to socket Connection closed: 720 bytes sent to SSL, 402 bytes sent to socket https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63825 https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63827 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1294 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1295 Connection closed: 715 bytes sent to SSL, 402 bytes sent to socket Connection closed: 277 bytes sent to SSL, 402 bytes sent to socket https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63829 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1297 Connection closed: 269 bytes sent to SSL, 402 bytes sent to socket https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63831 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1299 Connection closed: 920 bytes sent to SSL, 349 bytes sent to socket https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63833 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1301 https accepted connection from 85.127.28.154:63835 https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1303 Connection closed: 920 bytes sent to SSL, 349 bytes sent to socket readsocket: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (10054) Connection reset: 1289938 bytes sent to SSL, 481 bytes sent to socket ************************* My STUNNEL.CONF looks like this: ******************************** ; File with certificate and private key cert = stunnel.pem key = stunnel.pem ; Log (1= minimal, 5=recommended, 7=all) and log file) ; Preceed with a ";" to disable logging debug = 5 output = stunnel.log ; Some performance tuning socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Data compression algorithm: zlib or rle compression = zlib ; SSL bug options / NO SSL:v2 (SSLv3 and TLSv1 is enabled) options = ALL options = NO_SSLv2 ; Service-level configuration ; Stunnel listens to port 443 (HTTPS) to any IP ; and connects to port 44300 (HFS) on localhost [https] accept = 0.0.0.0:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:44300 TIMEOUTclose = 0 ************************************* Your help will be appreciated. Regards Manfred Alfare (not a native englisch speaker :-(

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 5
by GNUtoo＠no-log.org 23 May '07

23 May '07

> >>> in cygwin i have the following errors: >>> $ openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config >>> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem >>> Generating a 512 bit RSA private key >>> ..++++++++++++ >>> .....++++++++++++ >>> writing new private key to 'stunnel.pem' >>> ----- >>> unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config >>> problems making Certificate Request >>> 1988:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no >>> value:conf_lib.c:329:group=req name=distinguished_name >>> >>> $ /usr/bin/stunnel.exe >>> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG4[2188:6422536]: Wrong permissions on >>> /etc/stunnel/mail.pem >>> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: Error reading certificate file: >>> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem >>> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: error stack: 140DC009 : >>> error:140DC009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:PEM lib >>> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: >>> SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM >>> routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line >>> >>> and i ran all as Administrator >> >> Can you please post your /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf, and also the results >> of >> 'ls -al /etc/stunnel'. Thanks, Andrew. >> > $ ls -al /etc/stunnel/ > total 6 > drwx------+ 2 FC1 Users 0 May 13 22:37 . > drwx------+ 11 FC1 Users 0 May 13 21:56 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Nessuno 11 May 13 22:37 mail.pem -> > stunnel.pem > -rwx------ 1 Administrator Nessuno 1578 May 13 22:36 stunnel.conf > -rwx------+ 1 FC1 Users 1533 May 13 22:13 stunnel.conf-sample > -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator Nessuno 497 May 13 22:36 stunnel.pem > > > $ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf > #; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 > #; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular > configuration > #; Please make sure you understand them (especially the effect of chroot > jail) > > #; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode > #;cert = /etc/stunnel/mail.pem > key = /etc/stunnel/mail.pem > > #; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) > sslVersion = SSLv3 > > #; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 > chroot = /var/lib/stunnel/ > setuid = nobody > setgid = nobody > #; PID is created inside chroot jail > pid = /stunnel.pid > > #; Some performance tunings > socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 > socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 > #;compression = rle > > #; Workaround for Eudora bug > #;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS > > #; Authentication stuff > #;verify = 2 > #; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath > #; CApath is located inside chroot jail > #;CApath = /certs > #; It's often easier to use CAfile > #;CAfile = /etc/stunnel/certs.pem > #; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath > #; CRLpath is located inside chroot jail > #;CRLpath = /crls > #; Alternatively you can use CRLfile > #;CRLfile = /etc/stunnel/crls.pem > > #; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting > #;debug = 7 > #;output = stunnel.log > > #; Use it for client mode > #;client = yes > > #; Service-level configuration > > #;[pop3s] > #;accept = 995 > #;connect = 110 > > #;[imaps] > #;accept = 993 > #;connect = 143 > > #;[ssmtp] > #;accept = 465 > #;connect = 25 > > #;[https] > ##;accept = 443 > #;connect = 80 > #;TIMEOUTclose = 0 > > #; vim:ft=dosini > > [vnc] > accept = 127.0.0.1:5500 > connect = 192.168.1.107:443 now that i have posted the config file...do i need to post something else?

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Re: [stunnel-users] Simple SMTP encryption
by Hans Werner Strube 21 May '07

21 May '07

James Moe wrote: > client = yes > > [smtps] > accept = 127.0.0.1:465 > connect = smtpauth.earthlink.net:25 > > I missed the part somewhere that tells Stunnel to issue a STARTTLS to > the smtp server before attempting to negotiate a TLS connection. Add (under [smtps]): protocol = smtp

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Simple SMTP encryption
by James Moe 19 May '07

19 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello, stunnel 4.20 with OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 I wish have my MUA to send messages encrypted to a secure mail server. Stunnel is set up as a client with the following configuration: client = yes [smtps] accept = 127.0.0.1:465 connect = smtpauth.earthlink.net:25 I missed the part somewhere that tells Stunnel to issue a STARTTLS to the smtp server before attempting to negotiate a TLS connection. The "failed handshake" bit is because the server is rejecting the command because of NULLs in the text stream. 501 NULL characters are not allowed in SMTP commands. Then there is the "wrong version" error. I suppose that is a side effect of the handshake failure? Here is a typical connection log: 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[232:4239]: smtps accepted FD=12 from 127.0.0.1:52672 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[232:4239]: Creating a new thread 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[232:4239]: New thread created 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: smtps started 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG5[264:4239]: smtps accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:52672 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: FD 15 in non-blocking mode 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: smtps connecting 207.69.189.201:25 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: connect_wait: connected 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG5[264:4239]: smtps connected remote server from 192.168.69.14:52673 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: Remote FD=15 initialized 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: SSL alert (write): fatal: handshake failure 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG3[264:4239]: SSL_connect: 1408F10B: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG5[264:4239]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.05.19 12:52:42 LOG7[264:4239]: smtps finished (0 left) - -- jimoe (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (OS/2) iD8DBQFGT1lQzTcr8Prq0ZMRAv50AJ9Kydmi3F/VBQ8hvpr+HmodUZhJEgCfQjbz TRdvnzpATUH/y3gzA1EXMYo= =jTqm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Several connections on a short period of time problem
by Teigao, Rafael Coninck 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, I'm running Stunnel 4.20 to connect a Win client to a Win server. On the server it runs as a service, but on the client side I call it every time a connection is requested with a different config file (I need dynamic configuration) If I connect, disconnect and connect again very quickly (say, in 10 seconds), the fourth time (usually) that I try to connect will give me error 10060 (timeout) on the client application (not Stunnel). Does Stunnel restrict the amount of connection from the same client based on time or something like that? Thanks, Rafael.

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
by GNUtoo＠no-log.org 15 May '07

15 May '07

>> in cygwin i have the following errors: >> $ openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config >> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem >> Generating a 512 bit RSA private key >> ..++++++++++++ >> .....++++++++++++ >> writing new private key to 'stunnel.pem' >> ----- >> unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config >> problems making Certificate Request >> 1988:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no >> value:conf_lib.c:329:group=req name=distinguished_name >> >> $ /usr/bin/stunnel.exe >> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG4[2188:6422536]: Wrong permissions on >> /etc/stunnel/mail.pem >> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: Error reading certificate file: >> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem >> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: error stack: 140DC009 : >> error:140DC009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:PEM lib >> 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: >> SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM >> routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line >> >> and i ran all as Administrator > > Can you please post your /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf, and also the results > of > 'ls -al /etc/stunnel'. Thanks, Andrew. > $ ls -al /etc/stunnel/ total 6 drwx------+ 2 FC1 Users 0 May 13 22:37 . drwx------+ 11 FC1 Users 0 May 13 21:56 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Nessuno 11 May 13 22:37 mail.pem -> stunnel.pem -rwx------ 1 Administrator Nessuno 1578 May 13 22:36 stunnel.conf -rwx------+ 1 FC1 Users 1533 May 13 22:13 stunnel.conf-sample -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator Nessuno 497 May 13 22:36 stunnel.pem $ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf #; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 #; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular configuration #; Please make sure you understand them (especially the effect of chroot jail) #; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode #;cert = /etc/stunnel/mail.pem key = /etc/stunnel/mail.pem #; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = SSLv3 #; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel/ setuid = nobody setgid = nobody #; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid #; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 #;compression = rle #; Workaround for Eudora bug #;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS #; Authentication stuff #;verify = 2 #; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath #; CApath is located inside chroot jail #;CApath = /certs #; It's often easier to use CAfile #;CAfile = /etc/stunnel/certs.pem #; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath #; CRLpath is located inside chroot jail #;CRLpath = /crls #; Alternatively you can use CRLfile #;CRLfile = /etc/stunnel/crls.pem #; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting #;debug = 7 #;output = stunnel.log #; Use it for client mode #;client = yes #; Service-level configuration #;[pop3s] #;accept = 995 #;connect = 110 #;[imaps] #;accept = 993 #;connect = 143 #;[ssmtp] #;accept = 465 #;connect = 25 #;[https] ##;accept = 443 #;connect = 80 #;TIMEOUTclose = 0 #; vim:ft=dosini [vnc] accept = 127.0.0.1:5500 connect = 192.168.1.107:443

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certs problems in cygwin
by GNUtoo＠no-log.org 14 May '07

14 May '07

in cygwin i have the following errors: $ openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem Generating a 512 bit RSA private key ..++++++++++++ .....++++++++++++ writing new private key to 'stunnel.pem' ----- unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config problems making Certificate Request 1988:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no value:conf_lib.c:329:group=req name=distinguished_name $ /usr/bin/stunnel.exe 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG4[2188:6422536]: Wrong permissions on /etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: Error reading certificate file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: error stack: 140DC009 : error:140DC009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:PEM lib 2007.05.13 22:37:12 LOG3[2188:6422536]: SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line and i ran all as Administrator

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with the windows version it isn't better...same kind of errors
by GNUtoo＠no-log.org 13 May '07

13 May '07

C:\Programmi\openssl>openssl.exe req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel .conf -out stunnel.pem -keyout stunnel.pem Loading 'screen' into random state - done Generating a 512 bit RSA private key .....++++++++++++ .......................++++++++++++ writing new private key to 'stunnel.pem' ----- unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config problems making Certificate Request 1772:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no value:./cryp to/conf/conf_lib.c:329:group=req name=distinguished_name 2007.05.13 23:05:03 LOG3[304:860]: Error resolving 'VNC_client_IP_address': Neither nodename nor servname known (EAI_NONAME) Cannot resolve 'VNC_client_IP_address:443' - delaying DNS lookup 2007.05.13 23:05:03 LOG3[304:860]: Error reading certificate file: stunnel.pem 2007.05.13 23:05:03 LOG3[304:860]: error stack: 140DC009 : error:140DC009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:PEM lib 2007.05.13 23:05:03 LOG3[304:860]: SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line 2007.05.13 23:05:03 LOG3[304:860]: Server is down

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RTMPS
by Grant Kohler 11 May '07

11 May '07

Has anybody had any luck getting RTMP and stunnel to work together with RTMPS? Thanks, -Grant

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Stunnel-Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 and Spampal
by Jim 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

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RE: [stunnel-users] Vista not connecting to port 139
by Neil Aggarwal 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Alaric: This is strange. When I go to the Security Center, it says the McAfee Personal Firewall is on, but I can't find it in the Start menu, Services, or anywhere else. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. -----Original Message----- From: Alaric Dailey [mailto:alaricd@pengdows.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:48 PM To: 'Neil Aggarwal' Subject: RE: [stunnel-users] Vista not connecting to port 139 I would check the windows firewall, or any other security suite you may have. -----Original Message----- From: stunnel-users-bounces(a)mirt.net [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@mirt.net] On Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 15:30 To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net Subject: [stunnel-users] Vista not connecting to port 139 Hello: I am trying to map a network drive over an stunnel connection. The server is Linux and the client machine is Windows Vista (Ugh!). I have stunnel installed and working. I have the following in my stunnel.conf: client = yes delay = yes [netDrives] accept = 222.222.222.222:139 connect = www.jammconsulting.com:2139 When I go to map the network drive on vista, I use this command: net use x: \\222.222.222.222\MyShare mypass /user:myuser It eventually gives me an error message about network path not found. Looking at the stunnel window, there are no messages about any connections to the stunnel. If I do: telnet 222.222.222.222 139 the telnet session connects and I see messages about a connection in the stunnel window. Any ideas why Vista is not using port 139? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)mirt.net http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users

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Re: [stunnel-users] Handshake failure
by RUTSCHLE Yves 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

RUTSCHLE Yves wrote: > Argh. After removing all my debugging printf's, it turns out it doesn't seem > to work after all. Which, if it has to do with signals and timing, is only > partly surprising. Ok, nothing to do with any of that. Deep inside OpenSSL, there is a call to gmtime_r. Deep somewhere in hell (I hope), someone decided that LynxOS' gmtime_r functions would have its arguments *reversed*. REVERSED. I guess they were going for SIXPO complience. So that call would write rubbish in the stack, hence no returning from the call and segfault instead. So, nothing to do with stunnel after all. Thanks for the support anyway! :) Y. - TGIFriday

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[PATCH?] Senting a list of accepted CAs to the client
by Miloslav Trmac 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hello, stunnel currently does not send a list of accepted CAs, see e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327001#c20 . Sending the list was #if 0-ed out sometime between stunnel 3.22 and 4.00, with no change log entry AFAICS. Does anyone remember know why was it disabled, and whether it is safe to reenable (e. g. using the attached patch)? Thanks, Mirek

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Vista not connecting to port 139
by Neil Aggarwal 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello: I am trying to map a network drive over an stunnel connection. The server is Linux and the client machine is Windows Vista (Ugh!). I have stunnel installed and working. I have the following in my stunnel.conf: client = yes delay = yes [netDrives] accept = 222.222.222.222:139 connect = www.jammconsulting.com:2139 When I go to map the network drive on vista, I use this command: net use x: \\222.222.222.222\MyShare mypass /user:myuser It eventually gives me an error message about network path not found. Looking at the stunnel window, there are no messages about any connections to the stunnel. If I do: telnet 222.222.222.222 139 the telnet session connects and I see messages about a connection in the stunnel window. Any ideas why Vista is not using port 139? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

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Stunnel on Vista
by Neil Aggarwal 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello: Has anyone used stunnel on Vista? For some stupid reason, it tells me I can't save the stunnel.conf file. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (214)986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

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Re: [stunnel-users] Handshake failure
by RUTSCHLE Yves 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Michal Trojnara wrote: >Some systems require to reset signal handler each time a signal was >received, while for others the handler is executed recursively destroying >CPU stack of running stunnel process. Ah. That'd explain it. Thanks for the tip and the explanations! Y.

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Handshake failure
by RUTSCHLE Yves 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello, I am trying to set up a stunnel between two machines running LynxOS, which is a POSIX derivative. I've compiled OpenSSL 0.9.8e, and stunnel 4.20: stunnel 4.20 on i386-unknown-lynxos with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 Threading:FORK SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 [...] I use the following config files: ////// server side debug=7 foreground=yes pid= CAfile=valid_certs key=privkey.pem cert=cert.pem verify=1 [SSLTunnel] accept=1235 connect=1234 ////// end server side ////// client side debug=7 foreground=yes pid= CAfile=valid_certs key=privkey.pem cert=cert.pem verify=1 client=yes [SSLTunnel] accept=4234 connect=173.16.1.10:1235 ////// end client side (It's run from different directories so the PEM files are different) After running both stunnels, I connect to the client side and see a beginning of handshake; however, it then breaks down: from afar, it looks like the client doesn't take the server certificate: ///// server trace 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/st07815/.rnd 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/st07815/.rnd 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Certificate: cert.pem 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Certificate loaded 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Key file: privkey.pem 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Private key loaded 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Loaded verify certificates from valid_certs 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: Loaded valid_certs revocation lookup file 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: SSL context initialized for service SSLTunnel 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG5[58:0]: stunnel 4.20 on i386-unknown-lynxos with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG5[58:0]: Threading:FORK SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG6[58:0]: file ulimit = 64 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG6[58:0]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG5[58:0]: 29 clients allowed 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: FD 3 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: SSLTunnel bound to 0.0.0.0:1235 2007.04.25 15:33:22 LOG7[58:0]: No pid file being created (end of init, waiting for connection) 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[58:0]: SSLTunnel accepted FD=6 from 173.16.1.7:1092 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSLTunnel started 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG5[68:0]: SSLTunnel accepted connection from 173.16.1.7:1092 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.04.25 15:34:17 LOG7[68:0]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.04.25 15:34:19 LOG3[68:0]: SSL_accept: Peer suddenly disconnected 2007.04.25 15:34:19 LOG5[68:0]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.04.25 15:34:19 LOG7[58:0]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.04.25 15:34:19 LOG7[58:0]: Process 68 finished with code 0 (0 left) ///// end server trace ///// client trace 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/st07815/.rnd 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/st07815/.rnd 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Certificate: cert.pem 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Certificate loaded 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Key file: privkey.pem 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Private key loaded 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Loaded verify certificates from valid_certs 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: Loaded valid_certs revocation lookup file 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: SSL context initialized for service SSLTunnel 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG5[12:0]: stunnel 4.20 on i386-unknown-lynxos with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG5[12:0]: Threading:FORK SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG6[12:0]: file ulimit = 64 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG6[12:0]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG5[12:0]: 29 clients allowed 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: FD 3 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: SSLTunnel bound to 0.0.0.0:4234 2007.04.25 15:33:59 LOG7[12:0]: No pid file being created (end of init, waiting for connection) 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[12:0]: SSLTunnel accepted FD=6 from 152.14.101.54:64752 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: SSLTunnel started 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG5[27:0]: SSLTunnel accepted connection from 152.14.101.54:64752 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: SSLTunnel connecting 173.16.1.10:1235 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: connect_wait: connected 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG5[27:0]: SSLTunnel connected remote server from 173.16.1.7:1092 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: Remote FD=5 initialized 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2007.04.25 15:34:27 LOG7[27:0]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2007.04.25 15:34:28 LOG7[12:0]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.04.25 15:34:28 LOG7[12:0]: Process 27 terminated on signal 11 (0 left) ///// end client trace Now the strange thing is that this very same setup works on Solaris, so I have something wrong with the port of either OpenSSL or stunnel on LynxOS. If someone could give me a hint as to where to start poking, I'd greatly appreciate it. TIA, Y.

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Stunnel with Goldmine 6.70.61214
by Raymond Randall 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Greetings! Use Goldmine with Gmail domain services. Have set up according to Mike Casteel's instructions. However, Goldmine will not download email from the Gmail (the GMail address: rayrandall(a)ethosadvisory.com). Here is the stunnel.conf file: client=yes [pop3] accept=9995 connect=pop.gmail.com:995 [smtp] accept=465 connect=smtp.gmail.com:465 POP and SMTP set to: 127.0.0.1 Here is the stunnel report: 2007.04.26 06:32:20 LOG3[1972:1996]: Error resolving 'pop.gmail.com': Neither nodename nor servname known (EAI_NONAME) Cannot resolve 'pop.gmail.com:995' - delaying DNS lookup 2007.04.26 06:32:20 LOG3[1972:1996]: Error resolving 'smtp.gmail.com': Neither nodename nor servname known (EAI_NONAME) Cannot resolve 'smtp.gmail.com:465' - delaying DNS lookup 2007.04.26 06:32:20 LOG5[1972:1996]: stunnel 4.16 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 2007.04.26 06:32:20 LOG5[1972:1996]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 2007.04.26 06:32:24 LOG5[1972:424]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2007.04.26 07:11:56 LOG5[1972:1204]: pop3 connected from 127.0.0.1:1600 2007.04.26 07:14:01 LOG5[1972:1204]: Connection closed: 2795 bytes sent to SSL, 662451 bytes sent to socket Perhaps this is a Goldmine configuration error. Not sure, and appreciate suggestions. Ray Randall -- Ethos Advisory Services Ray Randall 617-275-5565 Fax: 877-895-3756 http://www.ethosadvisory.com Information provided by Ethos is based on sources we believe reliable. Ethos does not offer legal or accounting services. Information contained in this email message is confidential and may contain privileged information. Any review or use of the information contained in this email message by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. Content of this email is illustrative and educational; it is not a recommendation to purchase or sell. The examples presented do not take into consideration commissions, tax implications or other transaction costs, which may significantly affect the economic consequences of a given strategy. Mutual fund investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs, or expenses. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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Connecting via rtmps to Red5 server
by David Schulberg 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, I have been led to stunnel as the way to get a Flash application to communicate securely with Red5 server. Red5 doesn't directly support ssl connectivity but using rtmps protocol (rtmp tunnelled via https) clients should be able to connect to Red5 if stunnel handles the encrypted traffic on port 443 and passes unencrypted communications back and forth to the Red5 on a port it expects to receive rtmp communication.. (refer http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/firewalls_proxy04.html) The log file I get when I attempt to talk rtmps is shown below 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3384]: New thread created 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: https started 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: FD 224 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG5[3932:3664]: https accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1249 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: FD 248 in non-blocking mode 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: https connecting 127.0.0.1:1935 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: connect_wait: connected 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG5[3932:3664]: https connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:1250 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: Remote FD=248 initialized 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2007.04.25 18:19:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2007.04.25 18:24:04 LOG6[3932:3664]: init_ssl: s_poll_wait timeout 2007.04.25 18:24:04 LOG5[3932:3664]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.04.25 18:24:04 LOG7[3932:3664]: https finished (0 left) The stunnel.conf file has the following settings that pertain specifically to this situation client = yes [https] accept = 443 connect = 1935 What I seem to see (according to the logfile) is that an ssl connection is successfully established but no subsequent communication takes place after the connection has been made. At this point my Flash application doesn't send any messages via the ssl connection which seems to implicate my client as being the source of my problem. I would appreciate any advice on how I can best investigate this whole situation to resolve the issue. Regards, David Schulberg email: davids(a)evertech.com.au

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firewall very restricted!!
by Pitoniso Rikito Rikin 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Ok guys look this... my only contact with the world is trought the WEB port 80 how i can establish a ssh connection trought this port, the only method avaible is the GET or POST.... well how i do this... help --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Using Client Authentication
by Ravi Gowda 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi All, I am trying to have a setup where stunnel acts as a client to a server which requires client-Authentication. This is the snapshot of my stunnel.conf # Sample stunnel configuration file # Copyright by Michal Trojnara 2002 setuid = nobody setgid = nobody output = /etc/stunnel/out cert = /etc/stunnel/rtca-client.pem key = /etc/stunnel/rtca-client.ky # Authentication stuff verify = 2 # don't forget about c_rehash CApath # it is located inside chroot jail: #CApath = /certs # or simply use CAfile instead: CAfile = /etc/stunnel/rtca.pem ciphers = DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:DES-CBC3-MD5:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA:AES128-SHA:IDEA-CBC-SHA:IDEA-CBC-MD5:RC2-CBC-MD5:DHE-DSS-RC4-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5:RC4-MD5:RC4-64-MD5:EXP1024-DHE-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP1024-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP1024-RC2-CBC-MD5:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA:DES-CBC-SHA:DES-CBC-MD5:EXP1024-DHE-DSS-RC4-SHA:EXP1024-RC4-SHA:EXP1024-RC4-MD5:EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5:EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5:EXP-RC4-MD5:EXP-RC4-MD5 # Some debugging stuff debug = 7 output = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.log # Use it for client mode client = yes when I try to connect to the server, I am seeing that Stunnel is sending an empty certificate..which is making my server to reject connections. Can someone please help me out?? Thanks in Advance Ravi Gowda

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Re: [stunnel-users] Setting up chain certificates on Stunnel.
by Hans Werner Strube 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Satyajit Das wrote: > My server certificate > signed by intermediate CA > signed by Verisign CA > > I have the Verisign certificate on my clients trusted root CAs, however I am > > not able to get the SSL communication through. I believe this is because > stunnel should send all the three certificates for authentication and I > couldnt > configure stunnel to send across all the three certificates. > > Can anybody please help install all these certificates on stunnel. Simply concatenate the certificates (in PEM format) in the file specified by "cert = ..." and supply the key of your server certificate either in the same file or in the file specified by "key = ...".

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stunnel-4.20 crash on AIX
by Peter O'Gorman 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi, We built stunnel-4.20 on solaris, hpux, aix, tru64. irix and various linux hosts, and it works fine everywhere except hpux10.20 and aix. stunnel crashes with similar backtraces on AIX-4.3,5.1,5.2 and 5.3, not on the first client connect (using stunnel client=yes, connecting to s secure daytime server on another host, because everyone needs a secure daytime server :-p) but on the second connection. We have not tried server side yet, I assume results are similar. The backtrace looks like this: GDB: Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xd0126b1c in _sigsetmask () from /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o) (gdb) bt #0 0xd0126b1c in _sigsetmask () from /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o) #1 0xd0127e5c in _p_sigaction () from /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o) #2 0xd0315544 in sigaction () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o) #3 0xd038beac in signal () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o) #4 0x10006200 in sigchld_handler (sig=0) at network.c:350 #5 0x00004378 in ?? () Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) dbx: sigchld_handler(sig = 0), line 350 in "network.c" _sigsetmask(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0126b1c _p_sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0127e58 raise.sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0315540 signal(??, ??) at 0xd038bea8 sigchld_handler(sig = 0), line 350 in "network.c" _sigsetmask(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0126b1c _p_sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0127e58 raise.sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0315540 signal(??, ??) at 0xd038bea8 sigchld_handler(sig = 0), line 350 in "network.c" _sigsetmask(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0126b1c _p_sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0127e58 raise.sigaction(??, ??, ??) at 0xd0315540 signal(??, ??) at 0xd038bea8 repeated forever. Line 350 of network.c says: signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld_handler); And that is in the signal handler, it seems like a normal thing to do, and I have no idea why, on AIX, it crashes. putting an #ifndef _AIX #endif around the signal() call "fixes" the crash, alternatively setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN on AIX "fixes" it, but I don't think that either solution is correct. I don't believe the signal handler will get called again as we do not reset the signal. (tests that assumtion and finds answer to riddle) Okay, problem identified. The signal_handler is being called repeatedly, causing an infinite loop that can only end in a crash. According to the AIX signal man page: The signal in libc.a does not set the SA_RESTART flag. It sets the signal mask to the signal whose action is being specified, and sets flags to SA_OLDSTYLE. The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of signal sets the SA_RESTART flag and preserves the current settings of the signal mask and flags. The BSD version can be used by compiling with the Berkeley Compatibility Library (libbsd.a). And indeed, no patches are required if I add -lbsd. Another solution would probably be to use sigaction if it is available. Meanwhile, please find attached a patch to add -lbsd on aix. Thanks for bearing with me while I figured this out :-) Peter

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Setting up chain certificates on Stunnel.
by Satyajit Das 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi , I am using stunnel as a wrapper to provide SSL functionalities for my server. Right now I am having problems setting up chained certificates on stunnel. My Problem -> My server certificate > signed by intermediate CA > signed by Verisign CA I have the Verisign certificate on my clients trusted root CAs, however I am not able to get the SSL communication through. I believe this is because stunnel should send all the three certificates for authentication and I couldnt configure stunnel to send across all the three certificates. Can anybody please help install all these certificates on stunnel. Thanks in advance, Satyajit

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Cannot install stunnel as a service on Vista
by Neil Aggarwal 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hello: I cannot install stunnel as a service on Vista. I get a permission denied error. Is there a way to work around it? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (214)986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

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forcing checking of local certificates every time
by san san 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi, I am using stunnel with verify option with value 3. In value 3 the authentication is carried out using the local trusted certificates. I think stunnel does not check the local trusted certificates directory each and every time. If the connection has already been established then it does not check local trusted certificates , connection can be established using the certificates in cache. Is it possible to force to check the local trusted certificates every time. Regards

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stunnel work with NAT
by atsushi kataoka 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

I have one question , does stunnel work with NAT ? I will explain the architecture There are some 10.0.0.XXXX machines and some are 192.0.0.XXXX machines. They are connected to each other via Router which does NAT. My VNC servers are installed on 10.0.0.XXXX and vnc clients on 192.0.0.XXXX I am not able to do the vnc from client to server. Now I want to encrypt the VNC traffic , can stunnel work with NAT? A Kataoka

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running concurrent stunnel instances
by John Taylor 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Greetings, I am running rsync through stunnel 4.20. Each end is a Dell dual cpu, dual core Xeon (each core with hyper-threading) 8 gigs of memory, running Win 2003 Server. The disks are 10K RPM Ultra-320 drives that use hardware raid-5. Right now, I have anywhere between 5 and 8 Scheduled Tasks running at the same time. The reason for this is that the backups need to run in parallel in order to finish within the 15 hour time window. Although I am not certain about an exact number, I believe I would be transferring about 300-400 gig of data each time. Even though I have a gigabit connection between the two servers, I am only seeing 5-6% network utilization. When running the same rsync batch file without stunnel encryption, the throughput was much higher. I would like to see about increasing my throughput with stunnel encryption running. I don't expect it to be as fast as running without stunnel, but I still think I should be able to do better than 5-6% throughput. I am also running a enhanced version of rsync that does not have any issues with NTFS disk fragmentation, since it preallocates the files to the final size before writing. I think the bottleneck is the CPU. To test out this theory, I would like to have multiple copies of the stunnel.exe running, each using their own config file and own port numbers. I don't think the problem is with rsync because it spawns a new process for each connection. Thus, the multiple rsync.exe processes get the advantage of running on top of multiple cores. This is not the case with stunnel.exe. It only uses 1 process, but 8 threads. I am hoping that multiple stunnel.exe instances will fix the bottleneck because each stunnel.exe process could then be running on it's own core. How can I accomplish this? Also, what is the fastest encryption cipher that stills has good security, over 64 bit, preferably at least 128 bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -John Stunnel.conf on server: cert = my.pem verify = 3 CAfile = my.pem socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 taskbar=no debug = 5 output = stunnel.log [rsynctnl] accept=12345 connect=873 ciphers = AES128-SHA Stunnel.conf on client: cert = my.pem taskbar = no socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 5 output = stunnel.log client = yes [rsynctnl] accept=12345 connect=10.9.8.7:12345 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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stunnel as ssh client and self signed certificates
by san san 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi, I was planning to use stunnel for my rdp based product. I have several trivial doubts,but since i would be using the same in my product. I would like to know following 1.Actually i want to use stunnel in the same way as ssh i.e Client authentication only , i don't want server authentication at all in my client. So it is possible to not check any server certificate from client side. If i will be using client certificate 2.Is it possible to use self-signed certificate ? I am aware of the drawbacks of using self-signed certificates but because of some inevitable reason i have to use self-signed certificates. I am sorry for my poor knowledge. Regards

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Is it possible to see the "real" IP of the client?
by Konrad Hammerer 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hi! I want to use STunnel to secure my IMAP connections to my mail server. It works fine but from now on the mail server shows 127.0.0.1 for the open imap client connections. Is there a way to get STunnel forward the real IP or is this impossible? Thanks, Konrad

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How to generate my own certificate for my dynamic dns
by Konrad Hammerer 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hi! I read somewere, that it is possible to generate a certificate for STunnel. The certificate shipped with the stunnel installer is just for testing purpose, isn't it? So were can I get my own, secure certificate? Thanks, Konrad

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User nobody logging in
by Dimitri Yioulos 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, folks. I've been using stunnel on our mail server (sendmail, spamassassin, clamav, mailscanner, mailwatch). I note the following being written to syslog, and wonder if stunnel is causing it: Mar 29 14:07:31 mail1 su(pam_unix)[29493]: session closed for user nobody Mar 29 14:08:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s accepted connection from 192.168.100.58:1723 Mar 29 14:08:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:33540 Mar 29 14:08:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: Connection closed: 138 bytes sent to SSL, 42 bytes sent to socket Mar 29 14:08:43 mail1 su(pam_unix)[29640]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Mar 29 14:08:43 mail1 su(pam_unix)[29640]: session closed for user nobody Mar 29 14:09:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s accepted connection from 192.168.100.58:1724 Mar 29 14:09:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:33544 Mar 29 14:09:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: Connection closed: 138 bytes sent to SSL, 42 bytes sent to socket Mar 29 14:10:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s accepted connection from 192.168.100.58:1725 Mar 29 14:10:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:33546 Mar 29 14:10:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: Connection closed: 138 bytes sent to SSL, 42 bytes sent to socket Mar 29 14:10:11 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30025]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Mar 29 14:10:11 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30025]: session closed for user nobody Mar 29 14:10:33 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30075]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Mar 29 14:10:33 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30075]: session closed for user nobody Mar 29 14:11:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s accepted connection from 192.168.100.58:1726 Mar 29 14:11:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: pop3s connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:33559 Mar 29 14:11:00 mail1 stunnel: LOG5[15993:3076422576]: Connection closed: 138 bytes sent to SSL, 42 bytes sent to socket Mar 29 14:11:03 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30206]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Mar 29 14:11:03 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30206]: session closed for user nobody Mar 29 14:11:06 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30215]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Mar 29 14:11:06 mail1 su(pam_unix)[30215]: session closed for user nobody It's the sessions opened and closed for the user nobody that has me concerned. stunnel appears to be the only process being run by the user nobody. If, in fact, this is caused by stunnel, do I keep these (and only these) session opened/closed instances from being logged? Thanks. Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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trouble shooting Pan issue
by eph man 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

hi, i'm trying to trouble shoot a problem with a newsreader called pan that i might be having. here's my setup: ubuntu 6.10 kernel 2.6.17 pan 0.14.2 stunnel4 4.150 i created a snntp.conf file with only: client = yes foreground = yes debug = 7 [nntps] accept = localhost:2000 connect = inetnews.worldnet.att.net:563 then i run stunnel4 and this is the output: ephman@wintermute:~$ sudo stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/snntp.conf 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG6[13414:3083015856]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: SSL context initialized for service nntps 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG5[13414:3083015856]: stunnel 4.15 on i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG5[13414:3083015856]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG6[13414:3083015856]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG6[13414:3083015856]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG5[13414:3083015856]: 500 clients allowed 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: FD 3 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: nntps bound to 127.0.0.1:2000 2007.03.29 13:54:47 LOG7[13414:3083015856]: Created pid file /var/run/stunnel4.pid i then startup pan and it won't connect to the server the log file says: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:15 - Pan 0.14.2.91 Started Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:15 - Directory "/home/ephman/.pan/messages/cache" contains 0.0 MB in 0 files Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:15 - Directory "/home/ephman/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sent" contains 0.0 MB in 0 files Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:15 - Directory "/home/ephman/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sendlater" contains 0.0 MB in 0 files Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:15 - News server connection count: 0 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:19 - New connection 0x846da08 for inetnews.worldnet.att.net, port 563 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:21 - NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket. Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:21 - Handshake failed: Error reading from socket. Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:26 - New connection 0x84a5850 for inetnews.worldnet.att.net, port 563 any help or hints would be really helpful. thanks. be well, ephman

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Simple Stunnel Question
by mdpeters 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

My goal is to have a web server transfer MySQL data via an AES tunnel to a MySQL database server with an added encryption card. Both systems have the same SSL and Stunnel software installed. My web servers database seems to be functioning as normal. I would like to verify that what I have is complete and effective. It is not apparent to me if I have finished construction or how to verify this works like I want it to. I'm not sure how I would verify that Stunnel is being used? Do I need to run Stunnel as a background service full time? Is there something I am missing here? Comments and advice is appreciated! ++++++ # /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -version stunnel 4.20 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Global options debug = 5 pid = /usr/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.3.2/specs Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.2 # uname -a SunOS slinky 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 # /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -sockets Socket option defaults: Option Accept Local Remote OS default SO_DEBUG -- -- -- 0 SO_DONTROUTE -- -- -- 0 SO_KEEPALIVE -- -- -- 0 SO_LINGER -- -- -- 0:0 SO_OOBINLINE -- -- -- 0 SO_RCVBUF -- -- -- 65535 SO_SNDBUF -- -- -- 65535 SO_RCVLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_SNDLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_RCVTIMEO -- -- -- -- SO_SNDTIMEO -- -- -- -- SO_REUSEADDR 1 -- -- 0 IP_TOS -- -- -- 0 IP_TTL -- -- -- 64 TCP_NODELAY -- -- -- 0 # openssl ciphers -v DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=MD5 RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC2(128) Mac=MD5 RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=MD5 EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=DSS Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export ++++++

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Stunnel support or OpenSSL in FIPS mode
by George Henson 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

All, Are there any current plans to include FIPS complaint mode in stunnel? I have asked some of my peers on other US Government projects and they indicated this would be a help to them as well. Looking at the users guide from the OpenSSL site (http://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/UserGuide-1.1.1.pdf) it would not appear to be a great amount of effort to make a stunnel that functions in a FIPS complaint mode. Attached I have included the patch I have created (with some help from friends). It does not do the final linking correctly as I am not very good with autmake. Please let me know what you think. Thank you George diff -u -r @stunnel-4.20/configure.ac stunnel-4.20/configure.ac --- @stunnel-4.20/configure.ac 2006-11-11 09:58:01.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/configure.ac 2007-03-26 18:35:09.000000000 -0400 @@ -260,6 +260,51 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$ssldir/include" LIBS="$LIBS -L$ssldir/lib -lssl -lcrypto" +AC_ARG_WITH(fips, + [ --with-fips Enable OpenSSL FIPS mode], + [ + if test "x$withval" != "xno" ; then + INCLUDES="=l$ssldir/include" + AC_CACHE_CHECK([for FIPS mode], ac_cv_fips, [ + AC_TRY_COMPILE( + [ #include <openssl/fips.h> ], + [ FIPS_mode_set(1); ], + [ ac_cv_fips="yes" ], + [ ac_cv_fips="no" ] + ) + ]) + fi + ] +) +if test "x$ac_cv_fips" = "xyes" ; then + CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DOPENSSL_FIPS" + FIPS_MODE=yes + AC_SUBST(FIPS_MODE) +fi + +AC_ARG_WITH(fips, + [ --with-fips Enable OpenSSL FIPS mode], + [ + if test "x$withval" != "xno" ; then + INCLUDES="=l$ssldir/include" + AC_CACHE_CHECK([for FIPS mode], ac_cv_fips, [ + AC_TRY_COMPILE( + [ #include <openssl/fips.h> ], + [ FIPS_mode_set(1); ], + [ ac_cv_fips="yes" ], + [ ac_cv_fips="no" ] + ) + ]) + fi + ] +) +if test "x$ac_cv_fips" = "xyes" ; then + CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DOPENSSL_FIPS" + FIPS_MODE=yes + AC_SUBST(FIPS_MODE) +fi +AM_CONDITIONAL(FIPS_MODE, test x$ac_cv_fips = xyes) + # Check for obsolete RSAref library AC_MSG_CHECKING([for obsolete RSAref library]) saved_LIBS="$LIBS" Only in stunnel-4.20: configure.ac.orig diff -u -r @stunnel-4.20/src/common.h stunnel-4.20/src/common.h --- @stunnel-4.20/src/common.h 2006-11-17 04:03:18.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/common.h 2007-03-26 18:35:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ #if SSLEAY_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00907000L #include <openssl/ocsp.h> #endif /* OpenSSL-0.9.7 */ +#ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS +#include <openssl/fips.h> +#endif #else /* HAVE_OPENSSL */ #include <lhash.h> #include <ssl.h> diff -u -r @stunnel-4.20/src/options.c stunnel-4.20/src/options.c --- @stunnel-4.20/src/options.c 2006-11-05 08:04:37.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/options.c 2007-03-26 18:35:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -556,7 +556,11 @@ /* ciphers */ switch(cmd) { case CMD_INIT: +#ifndef OPENSSL_FIPS section->cipher_list=SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST; +#else + section->cipher_list="!ADH:!RC4:!RC2:!IDEA:!MD5:!NULL:TLSv1"; +#endif break; case CMD_EXEC: if(strcasecmp(opt, "ciphers")) @@ -564,7 +568,11 @@ section->cipher_list=stralloc(arg); return NULL; /* OK */ case CMD_DEFAULT: +#ifndef OPENSSL_FIPS log_raw("%-15s = %s", "ciphers", SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST); +#else + log_raw("%-15s = %s", "ciphers", "!ADH:!RC4:!RC2:!IDEA:!MD5:!NULL:TLSv1"); +#endif break; case CMD_HELP: log_raw("%-15s = list of permitted SSL ciphers", "ciphers"); @@ -726,6 +734,31 @@ } #endif + /* fips mode */ +#ifndef USE_WIN32 + switch(cmd) { + case CMD_INIT: + options.option.fips_mode=0; + break; + case CMD_EXEC: + if(strcasecmp(opt, "fips")) + break; + if(!strcasecmp(arg, "yes")) + options.option.fips_mode = 1; + else if(!strcasecmp(arg, "no")) + options.option.fips_mode = 0; + else + return "argument should be either 'yes' or 'no'"; + return NULL; /* OK */ + case CMD_DEFAULT: + break; + case CMD_HELP: + log_raw("%-15s = yes|no FIPS mode", + "fips"); + break; + } +#endif + /* execargs */ #ifndef USE_WIN32 switch(cmd) { diff -u -r @stunnel-4.20/src/prototypes.h stunnel-4.20/src/prototypes.h --- @stunnel-4.20/src/prototypes.h 2006-11-11 08:03:05.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/prototypes.h 2007-03-26 18:35:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ unsigned int foreground:1; unsigned int syslog:1; /* log to syslog */ unsigned int rand_write:1; /* overwrite rand_file */ + unsigned int fips_mode:1; #ifdef USE_WIN32 unsigned int taskbar:1; /* enable the taskbar icon */ #endif diff -u -r @stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c --- @stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c 2006-11-30 15:47:45.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c 2007-03-26 18:35:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ #ifndef USE_WIN32 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* execution begins here 8-) */ +unsigned long e; main_initialize(argc>1 ? argv[1] : NULL, argc>2 ? argv[2] : NULL); signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); /* avoid 'broken pipe' signal */ @@ -72,6 +73,21 @@ signal(SIGHUP, signal_handler); /* signal(SIGSEGV, signal_handler); */ +#ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS + if(options.option.fips_mode) { + if (!FIPS_mode_set(1)) { + log_raw("Failed to enter FIPS mode"); + ERR_load_crypto_strings(); + while((e = ERR_get_error())) { + log_raw(ERR_error_string(e,NULL)); + } + return 1; /* failure */ + } else { + log_raw("FIPS mode enabled"); + } + } +#endif + main_execute(); return 0; /* success */

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using an ocsp
by Samuel Landau 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello, I am using stunnel 4.18 and openca-ocspd 1.5.1. The OCSPd uses a delegate certificate and the setup works when tested with openssl: $ openssl ocsp -issuer /home/landau/ssl/cacert.pem -serial 3 -url http://localhost:2560 -CAfile /home/landau/ssl/cacert.pem Response verify OK 3: good This Update: Mar 23 18:27:37 2007 GMT Next Update: Mar 26 10:56:33 2007 GMT But when it comes to using stunnel, I cannot figure out how to make it use properly the OCSP. I could see that stunnel 4.19 had more options for ocsp, but I am unsure this is related to my current issue. Besides, is there a way to have stunnel fall back on local cert/crl files if the ocsp server is not available ? Regards, -- Samuel Landau ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited. E-mail messages are not necessarily secure. Archos does not accept responsibility for any changes made to this message after it was sent. 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG5[29250:3083020512]: stunnel 4.18 on i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG5[29250:3083020512]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG6[29250:3083020512]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG6[29250:3083020512]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG5[29250:3083020512]: 500 clients allowed 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: server bound to 127.0.0.1:12345 2007.03.26 12:59:05 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: Created pid file /home/landau/stunnel4.pid 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: server accepted FD=7 from 127.0.0.1:36200 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: server started 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG6[29250:3083020512]: Child process 29252 finished with code 0 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: Connection from 127.0.0.1:36200 permitted by libwrap 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG5[29250:3082972080]: server connected from 127.0.0.1:36200 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate request A 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG6[29250:3082972080]: *** starting OCSP verification *** 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: connect_wait: connected 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: OCSP server connected 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 8 in blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG6[29250:3082972080]: OCSP response received 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG3[29250:3082972080]: OCSP_basic_verify: 27069076: error:27069076:OCSP routines:OCSP_basic_verify:signer certificate not found 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: SSL alert (write): fatal: certificate unknown 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG3[29250:3082972080]: SSL_accept: 140890B2: error:140890B2:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:no certificate returned 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG5[29250:3082972080]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.03.26 12:59:12 LOG7[29250:3082972080]: server finished (0 left) 2007.03.26 12:59:16 LOG3[29250:3083020512]: Received signal 2; terminating 2007.03.26 12:59:16 LOG7[29250:3083020512]: removing pid file /home/landau/stunnel4.pid cert = landau.pem key = landau.key sslVersion = SSLv3 pid =/home/landau/ssl/stunnel4.pid socket =l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket =r:TCP_NODELAY=1 compression =zlib foreground =yes verify =3 CApath =/home/landau/ssl/ CAfile =/home/landau/ssl/cacert.pem debug =7 output =/home/landau/ssl/stunnel4.log client =no [server] accept =localhost:12345 ocsp =http://localhost:2560 pty =no exec =/bin/bash execargs =bash

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[win32] stunnel/OpenSSL/Synergy howto
by P. Jansen 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Hi stunnel users and especially newbies, on http://stunnel.mirt.net/docs.html you can find a link to a stunnel/OpenSSL/Synergy howto for the Win32 platform. It is a short but hopefully useful doc how to install, configure and use stunnel. Feedback and comments are welcome. - Patrick

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Solaris 10 and MySQL questions
by mdpeters 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

My goal is to have a web server transfer MySQL data via an AES tunnel to a MySQL database server with an added encryption card. Both systems have the same SSL and Stunnel software installed. My web servers database seems to be functioning as normal. I would like to verify that what I have is complete and effective. It is not apparent to me if I have finished construction or how to verify this works like I want it to. I'm not sure how I would verify that Stunnel is being used. Do I need to run Stunnel as a background service full time? Is there something I am missing here? ++++++ # /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -version stunnel 4.20 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 with OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Global options debug = 5 pid = /usr/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.3.2/specs Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.2 # uname -a SunOS slinky 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 # /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -sockets Socket option defaults: Option Accept Local Remote OS default SO_DEBUG -- -- -- 0 SO_DONTROUTE -- -- -- 0 SO_KEEPALIVE -- -- -- 0 SO_LINGER -- -- -- 0:0 SO_OOBINLINE -- -- -- 0 SO_RCVBUF -- -- -- 65535 SO_SNDBUF -- -- -- 65535 SO_RCVLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_SNDLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_RCVTIMEO -- -- -- -- SO_SNDTIMEO -- -- -- -- SO_REUSEADDR 1 -- -- 0 IP_TOS -- -- -- 0 IP_TTL -- -- -- 64 TCP_NODELAY -- -- -- 0 # openssl ciphers -v DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=MD5 RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC2(128) Mac=MD5 RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=MD5 EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=DSS Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export ++++++

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How to surf the web over proxy?
by P. Jansen 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Hi, I know there is a way to do the following with SSH+PuTTY, with stunnel too? Do I need further software? Windows office computer --> (HTTP) --> Corporate firewall/proxy --> (HTTP) --> Home computer --> WWW Regards, Patrick

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Stunnel 4.20 with TCP Wrappers 7.6 problem in configure.ac
by lists＠d-ra.ath.cx 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Hi, the following patch makes stunnel 4.20 to operate with TCP wrappers 7.6. I had not tried other versions of stunnel nor TCP wrappers. The problem is the missing libnsl, so TCP wrappers will never be activated in ./configure Regards Dieter --- configure.ac.orig 2007-03-17 12:57:32.000000000 +0100 +++ configure.ac 2007-03-17 12:55:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT([no (autodetecting)]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([for hosts_access in -lwrap]) saved_LIBS="$LIBS" - LIBS="$saved_LIBS -lwrap" + LIBS="$saved_LIBS -lwrap -lnsl" AC_LINK_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [[int hosts_access(); int allow_severity, deny_severity;]],

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Getting a "Peer suddenly disconnected" error
by David Goodwin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hey all, I'm getting this in the /var/adm/messages log on the server side when attempting to connect from the client: Mar 8 22:23:33 SERVERNAME stunnel: [ID 821868 daemon.error] LOG3[27429:4]: SSL_connect: Peer suddenly disconnected I have the server configured as follows: cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.test.conf client=yes debug=debug cert=/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem [sunrpc] accept=112 connect=127.0.0.1:111 TIMEOUTclose=10 This is started just by running stunnel with the config file and then starting rpcbind normally. The client is configured as follows: # cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.test.conf client=yes debug=debug cert=/etc/stunnel/imnxnsm0.pem [sunrpc] accept=111 connect=SERVERNAME:112 The error shows up when I attempt to run "rpcinfo -p 127.0.0.1". Snoop is showing the following (adjusted to remove hostnames/ips): CLIENT -> SERVER TCP D=112 S=63986 Syn Seq=867918817 Len=0 Win=24820 Options=<nop,nop,sackOK,mss 1460> SERVER -> CLIENT TCP D=63986 S=112 Syn Ack=867918818 Seq=209756753 Len=0 Win=24820 Options=<nop,nop,sackOK,mss 1460> CLIENT -> SERVER TCP D=112 S=63986 Ack=209756754 Seq=867918818 Len=0 Win=24820 CLIENT -> SERVER TCP D=112 S=63986 Ack=209756754 Seq=867918818 Len=88 Win=24820 SERVER -> CLIENT TCP D=63986 S=112 Ack=867918906 Seq=209756754 Len=0 Win=24820 SERVER -> CLIENT TCP D=63986 S=112 Rst Seq=209756754 Len=0 Win=24820 I'm pretty new to stunnel, and am having a heck of a time getting this to work. This configuration is the closest I've been to success so far. Is there a better way for me to wrap rpcbind perhaps? Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks, Civil

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DLLs for OpenSSL 0.9.8e
by Michal Trojnara 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Dear Users, I've built the DLLs for OpenSSL 0.9.8e. They're available for download from: ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/openssl/binary-0.9.8e-zdll/ Best regards, Mike

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problem accesing a https site as a Windows version client
by Gustavo 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I'm running stunnel version 4.2 on Windows XP I can access a lot of websites, example https://servicios.afip.gov.ar/tramites_con_clave_fiscal/misAportes/images/t… but CAN'T access https://apwebserver.rentasgcba.gov.ar/ablpatib_ssl/images/Actitud_BsAs_negr… apparently a response never arrives to my PC my conf file is cert = stunnel.pem ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [https1] client = yes accept = 6001 connect = servicios.afip.gov.ar:443 TIMEOUTclose = 0 [https] client = yes accept = 6002 connect = apwebserver.rentasgcba.gov.ar:443 TIMEOUTclose = 5 ; vim:ft=dosini

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Download speed affected with stunnel help needed please.
by tom hammond 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Using HFS 2.1d http://www.rejetto.com and Stunnel 4.20 on single WinXP machine. The list of parameters you are using for stunnel, and if you are running it standalone or from inetd/xinetd: socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 [https] accept = # connect = # TIMOUTclose = 0 I dont'understand 3-7 as given here: http://www.stunnel.org/support/ only used OpenSSL to make CERT Win32 OpenSSL v0.9.8e Light *************************************** Description: HFS is a webserver that can only utilize HTTP, therefore I turned to Stunnel to implement https. When using HTTPs: for UPLOADING I get full speed. When using HTTPs: for DOWNLoADING the speed in cut drastically, 20x slower. The odd thing is, multiple downloads can go at once eg: 20 connections @80kb/second However no single connection will get over 80 or 100kb/second I searched the net and couldn't find a solution, but continuously came across mention of "loopback" problems with stunnel and http servers (old posts) or saying stuff about Microsoft winsock, found a few mentions of VNC server having an option to "enable loopback connections" Another thing I saw but closed (oops) was mention of disabling an HTTP server in order to avoid loopback problems with HTTPS serving.(HFS has no option because it is designed to serve ONLY HTTP) I have tons of hope for an easy solution for the following reasons: #1, uploading works perfect #2 just downloaded demo of Easy File Sharing Web Server(not free like HFS) and the download speed works through HTTPS. I have no clue as to how to fix this, saw one entry in the stunnel config at ssl.org: socket = a:SO_BINDTODEVICE=lo I DID attempt to enter this line into the config under my 2 original entries, but then stunnel would not start. Thank you --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.

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init_ssl: s_poll_wait timeout
by William Biagi 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

I am using a Eudora client configured to use STARTLS to send mail through stunnel to a sendmail server. The stunnel config is as follows: cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS delay = yes TIMEOUTconnect = 300 TIMEOUTbusy = 300 setuid = smtpauth setgid = smtpauth debug = 7 client = no foreground = yes pid = [smtps] accept = 465 connect = localhost:25 protocol=smtp When I send mail the connection is established with port 465 on stunnel but it fails to negotiate the ssl session. THis is the log: 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Configuration SSL options: 0x00000800 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: SSL options set: 0x00000800 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Certificate: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Certificate loaded 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: Private key loaded 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: SSL context initialized for service smtps 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG5[17753:1024]: stunnel 4.20 on i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG5[17753:1024]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG6[17753:1024]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG6[17753:1024]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG5[17753:1024]: 500 clients allowed 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: FD 3 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: smtps bound to 0.0.0.0:465 2007.03.06 15:45:08 LOG7[17753:1024]: No pid file being created 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG7[17753:1024]: smtps accepted FD=6 from 208.41.111.165:2542 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG7[17755:1026]: smtps started 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG7[17755:1026]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG7[17755:1026]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG5[17755:1026]: smtps accepted connection from 208.41.111.165:2542 2007.03.06 15:45:18 LOG7[17755:1026]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.03.06 15:45:20 LOG6[17755:1026]: init_ssl: s_poll_wait timeout 2007.03.06 15:45:20 LOG5[17755:1026]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.03.06 15:45:20 LOG7[17755:1026]: smtps finished (0 left) 2007.03.06 15:47:00 LOG3[17753:1024]: Received signal 2; terminating Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? BB

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High CPU system usage on Solaris
by armando.salvatori＠accenture.com 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

We use stunnel process to encrypt Oracle connections from a set of 4-6 application server. On the DB server, 20 cpus Solaris machine running Oracle, we have more then 400 LWPS for stunnel and the relative 400 oracle connections. We experience a huge amount of cpu usage (system component), about 40%, after stunnel setup (stunnel 4.15 version) Is it usual? Do you have experience on similar situation? Do you have any suggestions to improve cpu usage or to address performance issue/tuning? Thank you very much AS This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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make compile error options.c parse_ocsp_url
by William Biagi 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

./configure was successful but the make gave me the following: Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bbiagi/stunnel-4.20/src' if gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"stunnel\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"stunnel\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"4.20\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"stunnel\ 4.20\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"stunnel\" -DVERSION=\"4.20\" -DHOST=\"i686-pc-linux-gnu\" -DCPU_I686=1 -DVENDOR_PC=1 -DOS_LINUX_GNU=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_CHAR=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG=4 -DHAVE_DEV_PTMX=1 -DRANDOM_FILE=\"/dev/urandom\" -DHAVE_UCONTEXT_H=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_POLL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_POLL_H=1 -DHAVE_TCPD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1 -DHAVE_STROPTS_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_PTY_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBUTIL=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DUSE_PTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_SNPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSNPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_OPENPTY=1 -DHAVE_DAEMON=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DHAVE_WAIT4=1 -DHAVE_SETSID=1 -DHAVE_SETGROUPS=1 -DHAVE_CHROOT=1 -DHAVE_SYSCONF=1 -DHAVE_GETRLIMIT=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SIGMASK=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GETCONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_POLL=1 -DHAVE_ENDHOSTENT=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -DHAVE_GETADDRINFO=1 -DHAVE_OPENSSL=1 -Dssldir=\"/usr\" -DHAVE_OSSL_ENGINE_H=1 -I. -I. -I/usr/kerberos/include -DLIBDIR='"/usr/local/lib"' -DCONFDIR='"/usr/local/etc/stunnel"' -DPIDFILE='"/usr/local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid"' -g -O2 -Wall -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -I/usr/include -MT options.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/options.Tpo" -c -o options.o options.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/options.Tpo" ".deps/options.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/options.Tpo"; exit 1; fi options.c: In function `parse_ocsp_url': options.c:1762: warning: implicit declaration of function `OCSP_parse_url' options.c:1767: structure has no member named `ocsp_addr' options.c:1769: structure has no member named `ocsp_path' options.c: In function `parse_ocsp_flag': options.c:1786: `OCSP_NOCERTS' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1786: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once options.c:1786: for each function it appears in.) options.c:1787: `OCSP_NOINTERN' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1788: `OCSP_NOSIGS' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1789: `OCSP_NOCHAIN' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1790: `OCSP_NOVERIFY' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1791: `OCSP_NOEXPLICIT' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1792: `OCSP_NOCASIGN' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1793: `OCSP_NODELEGATED' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1794: `OCSP_NOCHECKS' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1795: `OCSP_TRUSTOTHER' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1796: `OCSP_RESPID_KEY' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c:1797: `OCSP_NOTIME' undeclared (first use in this function) options.c: At top level: options.c:1758: warning: `parse_ocsp_url' defined but not used options.c:1781: warning: `parse_ocsp_flag' defined but not used make[1]: *** [options.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bbiagi/stunnel-4.20/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 I am trying to install on a red hat 7.3 with openssl-0.9.6b-18

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RE: Stunnel Forks Out of Control
by Duncan Brown 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Hi all, Ok, I've gone through my last log file for when this issue happens. There's "1130 finished (2 left)" (where 1030 is the port we're listening on) at 10:22am, for example. Then, the next "1130 finished" doesn't happen for about another 20 minutes (which is weird), and then says, "1131 finished (124 left)". It's at this point that a lot of "connection reset by peer"'s happen and "0 bytes sent to SSL" also happen. It looks as though there are a bunch of connections being accepted but not handled. Can anyone assist? The debug level 7 log file is available if necessary. Thanks again, guys. Cheers, Duncan

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RE: Stunnel Forks Out of Control
by Duncan Brown 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi all, As an update, it looks like I'm using Stunnel 4.15. I thought it said 4.20, unless I managed to compile an older version. Regardless, I think the problem is happening in both versions. It looks as though it can't catch up on processing cached requests or something. Does that help at all? Cheers, Duncan

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Stunnel Forks Out of Control
by Duncan Brown 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hi all, I apologize if this issue appears in the archives but I've scoured them and can't find any similar instances (if this problem does occur in the archives then if someone could point it out to me I'd be grateful as well). So, here goes: I'm running Stunnel on Debian Linux. I run it in daemon mode and have the .conf file set to listen on a specific port and redirect to another port. Listening on the connecting end of Stunnel is another daemon I've created that listens on the same port for TCP traffic as part of a client-server application I have (a new process is forked for each connection). On the client end is a .NET application that communicates with the server via TCP with Stunnel installed. In my code, I've made sure that whenever a client-server session is finished, the server closes the socket, whether or not there was an error. Now, everything seems to work flawlessly for a period of time (this period of time is variable, from anywhere between 1 day to 1 month). Then, all of a sudden, Stunnel "explodes"; for example, while there might be one or two forks of my own daemon, there might be 128 instances of Stunnel, all of which are in a sleeping state (that is, if I run ps -aux, their "STAT" attribute is "S"), whereas before it exploded it was pretty much a 1:1 relationship. When it "explodes", I have to kill Stunnel and restart it, which is a pain in the rear-end given what I'm trying to do. Why is it doing this? How do I stop it from happening? I apologize again if this has already been brought up somewhere else, but I've been unable to find any references to any similar problems. If it's a "newbie" mistake or something I'll gladly accept it and learn from it. Please find below the information requested for a problem for the mailing list: - I'm using v4.20 - No parameters are used from the command-line when starting Stunnel; it just uses the standard .conf file which I've edited. - Output of "uname -a" : "Linux buffed 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux" - I'm using libc v6 - Output of "gcc -v" : Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) - I'm using OpenSSL v0.9.7e (25 Oct 2004) Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Duncan

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Stunnel proxy aware
by Kennet Svanberg 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hi, I'm quite happy with stunnel-4.05 but don't know how to add any of the proxy patches to make my own windows binaries. I also saw that others have wondered http://linode.mirt.net/pipermail/stunnel-users/2006-December/001404.html

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Stunnel on AIX 5.3 and AIX 5.2 - Solution
by Trevor Maistry 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hi, I downloaded stunnel version 4.05, changed the configuration file to use "cc" instead of "gcc" and compiled on AIX 5300-04 and AIX 5200-03. Compilations worked fine. However, you must compile on the machine you want to use it on. Otherwise you will have problems. Copy the "stunnel", "stunnel.pem" and sample "stunnel.conf-sample.in" files into /usr/local/bin. Rename the "stunnel.conf-sample.in" to " "stunnel.conf". Change the "stunnel.conf" accordingly and start "stunnel" like so "./stunnel stunnel.conf". Hope this helps. Regards, Trevor Maistry Principal Systems Consultant ============================================= Information and Communication Technology Division University of KwaZulu-Natal King George v Avenue, Durban, 4041 Tel : +2731-2602475 Fax: +2731-2602125 Cell: +2782-787-5583 Email : maistryt(a)ukzn.ac.za =============================================: Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/

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Re: new Cygwin maintainer for stunnel
by Michal Trojnara 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:59, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Please add Cygwin to the list of "known good" OSes at > http://stunnel.mirt.net/, and add me to the list of maintainers in the > PORTS file. Done. Thank you. Mike

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help
by RICH 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi to all i need help i have install stunnel rpm in mandriva but can not find the config file

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stunnel on Qnx 6.3
by Rajashekhar Durgadmath 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello All, I am facing problems running stunnel for Qnx 6.3 cross compiled on solaris. I want to provide a https front end to thtttpd (www.acme.com). stunnel starts but fails. Logs are like this: 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG5[1069085:1]: stunnel 4.20 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 with OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG5[1069085:1]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG6[1069085:1]: file ulimit = 1000 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG6[1069085:1]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG5[1069085:1]: 488 clients allowed 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1069085:1]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1069085:1]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1069085:1]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1069085:1]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1069085:1]: stunnel bound to xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:443 1980.01.01 15:01:46 LOG7[1073200:1]: Created pid file /stunnel.pid <Browser connects> 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:1]: stunnel accepted FD=7 from yyy.yy.yyy.yyy:64822 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: stunnel started 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG5[1073200:2]: stunnel accepted connection from qqq.qqq.qqq.qqq:64822 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG5[1073200:2]: Server mode 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server done A 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 1980.01.01 15:05:12 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client key exchange A 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 1 items in the session cache 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 client connects (SSL_connect()) 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 client connects that finished 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 client renegotiations requested 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 1 server connects (SSL_accept()) 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 1 server connects that finished 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 server renegotiations requested 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 session cache hits 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 1 session cache misses 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG7[1073200:2]: 0 session cache timeouts 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG6[1073200:2]: SSL accepted: new session negotiated 1980.01.01 15:05:13 LOG6[1073200:2]: Negotiated ciphers: RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 < SSL Negotiation done > 1980.01.01 15:08:49 LOG3[1073200:2]: remote socket: Address family not supported by protocol family (247) <<<<<< 1980.01.01 15:08:49 LOG5[1073200:2]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 1980.01.01 15:08:49 LOG7[1073200:2]: stunnel finished (0 left) I checked the address family; it is AF_INET :) socket syscall in client.c:989 is failing. I know the error "Address family not supported by protocol family (247)" says it all, but there are other applications running on the box which do the same thing and it works for them. Versions: OpenSSL 0.9.8 and stunnel 4.20. stunnel.conf ## stunnel.conf starts cert = /etc/localhost_cert.pem key = /etc/localhost_key.pem ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = all ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /some_dir setuid = root setgid = root ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /some_dir/stunnel.log [https] accept = <Qnx box IP>:443 connect = <Qnx box IP>:80 ## stunnel.conf end # uname -a QNX localhost 6.3.0 2006/04/27-13:08:16EST armbe It was configured thus: ./configure --prefix=/vob/nmi/3rd_party/stunnel --enable-dependency-tracking --with-ssl=/vob/nmi/3rd_party/openssl/ --build=armbe-qnx --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --with-threads=pthread --disable-libwrap Removing the --disable-libwrap does not help. stunnel is started like this: stunnel /etc/stunnel.conf -d http -r localhost:http -p /etc This also did not help: stunnel /etc/stunnel.conf -d https -r localhost:http -p /etc stunnel /etc/stunnel.conf # stunnel -version stunnel 4.20 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 with OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Global options debug = 5 pid = /some_path/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /some_path/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /some_path/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none Please reply, All comments appreciated. Cheers, Raj --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes.

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slow transfer of smtp
by jason kawaja 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

greetings. clients connects normally when not using ssl (stunnel). when using ssl the connection on the client end appears to take about a minute but does eventually work (mail is sent through encrypted). shown below is the log with debug=7 and a space between the area where a "pause" seems to be, ideas on what could be occurring during this time to induce the "pause"? client = machine making connection. server = machine running stunnel accepting the connection. 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134631424]: imaps accepted FD=9 from client:62847 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: imaps started 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: Connection from client: 62847 permitted by libwrap 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG5[69377:134633984]: imaps connected from client:62847 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134631424]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG6[69377:134631424]: Child process 69387 finished with code 0 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): before/ accept initialization 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server done A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client key exchange A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 1 items in the session cache 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 client connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 client renegotiatations requested 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 1 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 1 server connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 server renegotiatiations requested 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 session cache hits 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 session cache misses 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: 0 session cache timeouts 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG6[69377:134633984]: SSL accepted: new session negotiated 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG6[69377:134633984]: Negotiated ciphers: AES128- SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: imaps connecting server:143 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: connect_wait: connected 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: Remote FD=10 initialized 2007.02.14 12:24:06 LOG7[69377:134633984]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134631424]: ssmtp accepted FD=11 from client:62848 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: ssmtp started 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: FD 13 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: Connection from client: 62848 permitted by libwrap 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG5[69377:134881280]: ssmtp connected from client:62848 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): before/ accept initialization 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134631424]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG6[69377:134631424]: Child process 69391 finished with code 0 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server done A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client key exchange A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 2 items in the session cache 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 client connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 client renegotiatations requested 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 2 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 2 server connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 server renegotiatiations requested 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 session cache hits 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 session cache misses 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: 0 session cache timeouts 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG6[69377:134881280]: SSL accepted: new session negotiated 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG6[69377:134881280]: Negotiated ciphers: AES128- SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: ssmtp connecting server:25 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: connect_wait: connected 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: Remote FD=12 initialized 2007.02.14 12:24:08 LOG7[69377:134881280]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134631424]: imaps accepted FD=13 from client:62850 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: imaps started 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: FD 13 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: FD 14 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: FD 15 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: Connection from client: 62850 permitted by libwrap 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG5[69377:134882816]: imaps connected from client:62850 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134631424]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): before/ accept initialization 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG6[69377:134631424]: Child process 69478 finished with code 0 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 2 items in the session cache 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 client connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 client renegotiatations requested 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 3 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 3 server connects that finished 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 server renegotiatiations requested 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 1 session cache hits 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 session cache misses 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: 0 session cache timeouts 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG6[69377:134882816]: SSL accepted: previous session reused 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: FD 14 in non-blocking mode 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: imaps connecting server:143 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: connect_wait: connected 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: Remote FD=14 initialized 2007.02.14 12:25:06 LOG7[69377:134882816]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket -- Jason Kawaja, 2-4568 IT Expert, UF Dept of ECE

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configure/compile issue on AIX&In-Reply-To=
by Trevor Maistry 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi, Does anyone have a version of Stunnel which runs on AIX 5.3? Also, what is the idle timeout set to and how do I change it? Many thanks. Regards, Trevor Maistry Principal Systems Consultant ============================================= Information and Communication Technology Division University of KwaZulu-Natal King George v Avenue, Durban, 4041 Tel : +2731-2602475 Fax: +2731-2602125 Cell: +2782-787-5583 Email : maistryt(a)ukzn.ac.za =============================================: Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/

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"The most recent stable Stunnel version?"
by Roger Fulton 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

Hi, I've checked the support pages. I've browsed the mailing list archives. I've perused the ChangeLog file. I can't find an answer to this question: At http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html is stated "The most recent stable Stunnel version is flagged with a red asterisk (*)." I've used two different browsers, and I'll be danged if I see *any* version marked with *any* asterisk, red or otherwise. Would someone kindly direct this Stunnel newbie to the "most recent stable Stunnel version?" TIA.

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Oracle JDBC Failover not working
by Dario Mariani 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi all. We have a problem here with this configuration. before stunnel: BEA Weblogic, 2 JDBC, server1:1521 and server2:1521 Two SunCluster nodes with Oracle OPS/RAC (active-active conf), with NO shared address. So "server1" and "server2" are the phisical address. after stunnel: the JDBC config is 127.0.0.1:10001 and 127.0.0.1:10002 stunnel client is 10001->server1:11521 and 10002->server2:11521 stunnel server is 11521->localhost:1521 When we shut down the server1 (so oracle, listener and stunnel server is not responding), BEA cannot failover. A quick analisys shows that: 1. the JDBC connects to stunnel client, that accept the connection 2. stunnel client fails to connect to stunnel server 3. stunnel client close the connection with the JDBC 4. the JDBC cannot deal with the situation and doesn't failover. It seems like JDBC doesn't failover when he can open a connection but oracle doesn't reply. What i need is: is possible for Stunnel client to FIRST try to connect to the server, and then eventually accept the connection from the jdbc? Bye, dario.

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Intermediate Cert validation problem
by Eric McCombs 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I'm experiencing a problem validating intermediate cert on our Stunnel configuration. We are using Stunnel to forward IMAP, POP and SMTP SSL ports from our vpn server to our internal mail server. We originally used a self-signed cert on the vpn server. When clients connect via Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and various cell phone mail programs they received a warning message (Unable to verify identity of xxx) about the self-signed cert. To resolve this issue we purchased a SSL cert from Verisign to install on the vpn server. We generated the key and CSR and received the new cert from Verisign, which also requires an intermediate cert for verification. We have tried various methods to have the certs validated, combining the key, intermediate cert and server cert in one file, pointing to the CA_file, etc. but continue to see the Unable to verify identity message. Has anybody else encountered this problem and found a way to resolve the problem? Thanks in advance. Eric McCombs

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(no subject)
by Hemesath, Dean CTR USTRANSCOM J6 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

To all, Can Stunnel communicate bi-directionally over a single port? Or does it listen on one and communicate on a different one? Thanks Dean

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dude using stunnel
by aza zel 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

hi, is my first message in this list and i send to all of members a great greeting i want to now if this stage is posible (i look the example in your web site that inspired me) NET +---------+ | | +--------+ | non-SSL | -ST---- | | --- | LDAP | | enabled | | | | WITH | | client | | | | SSL | +---------+ | | +--------+ winXP CLIENT | | LDAP SERVER | | +---------+ | | | | ------- | | | | | | | client | +---------+ linux CLIENT In client side i have: - linux clients autenticate via pam and using tls (here i not have problems) :) - win xp (sp2) clients auntenticate via pgina without ssl or tls (i cant make work ssl in pgina (its posible the problem was the server certificate)) :( in server side i have a solaris when run a sun ldap server using a self signed certificate and accepting ssl/tls or not ssl/tls connections :) so, ¿with stunnel only in win side can i have this stage using the self signed cetificate provided by server? Salu2 :D

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Re: [stunnel-users] How is stunnel started ? / Searching stunnel service name
by Ben Stover 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hmm that is very curious. I investigated now all runnig services and did not found the stunnel service. The only reason I can find for this is that the service name does not contain "stunnel" in its name. How is it called otherwise? My services here (under Win2000) are (when I type "net start" at the command prompt): Alerter AVK Monitor AVK Service AVKProxy COM+ Event System Computer Browser DHCP Client Distributed Link Tracking Client Event Log IPSEC Policy Agent Logical Disk Manager MGABGEXE Network Connections PDFCreatorMessages PDScheduler Plug and Play Print Spooler Protected Storage Remote Access Connection Manager Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Remote Registry Service Removable Storage RunAs Service Security Accounts Manager Server Still Image Service System Event Notification Task Scheduler TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service Telephony Washer AutoComplete Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions Workstation Is it IPSEC Policy agent the service for stunnel ? Regards Ben On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:24:56 -0500, Carter Browne wrote: >One of the installation options is to have it run as a service in which >case it starts automatically as you note. This behavior can be >controlled from the services option in the administrative options of the >control panel (entering services.msc from the command line will also >bring it up). Then name of the service is stunnel. > >Carter > >Ben Stover wrote: >> After installation stunnel started automatically at Windows startup time. >> >> I tried to investigate how it is started. >> But did neither a classic startup folder entry nor a running service entry. >> Did I miss something? >> >> How is stunnel started ? >> >> Ben >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> All New Yahoo! Mail â¬ Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html >> _______________________________________________ >> stunnel-users mailing list >> stunnel-users(a)mirt.net >> http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users >> >> ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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SCO 6 Compil of libxml2
by Eric S. Eberhard 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Everyone, With a lot of help from Daniel I got it to work under the new SCO. It takes a few trick: chsysinfo uw7 ./configure --without-zlib --without-threads chsysinfo default make In case anyone else needs to do this :-) Thanks! Eric This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice http://www.vicsmba.com

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SCO 6 Compil of libxml2
by Eric S. Eberhard 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Everyone, With a lot of help from Daniel I got it to work under the new SCO. It takes a few trick: chsysinfo uw7 ./configure --without-zlib --without-threads chsysinfo default make In case anyone else needs to do this :-) Thanks! Eric This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice

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Re: [stunnel-users] patch: round robin load balancing
by Michal Trojnara 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Luke wrote: > Here is a simple patch which allows the "connect" option to accept a > comma separated list of names instead of just a single name. This feature is already implemented since version 4.06, 2004.12.26. Here is the relevant frament of ChangeLog: "Multiple connect=host:port options are allowed in a single service section. Remote hosts are connected using round-robin algorithm. This feature is not compatible with delayed resolver." Best regards, Mike

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Error I am receiving in stunnel logfile (help please!)
by Eric S. Eberhard 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hello Everyone, I tried it on 4.3.3 as well with my re-compiled version ... below are all 5 lines in the log file. stunnel 4.16 on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 stunnel connected from 127.0.0.1:37690 remote socket: Addr family not supported by protocol (66) Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket I also recompiled the latest stunnel with and without IPv6 ... same result with IPv6 as with IPv4 and same result with the new version: stunnel 4.20 on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 stunnel accepted connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1:59274 remote socket: Addr family not supported by protocol (66) Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket I have been using this for a while but I had to transfer to a new machine (AIX 4.3 to 5.3) and had to recompile my software and get a newer stunnel. I am now on 4.20 I thought it might be related to ipv4 versus ipv6 ... according to AIX documentation I had it set up for ipv4. I tried ipv6 for ducks, no difference. My inetd.conf line is: visanet stream tcp nowait root /visanet/ssl/stunnel stunnel visanet stream tcp6 nowait root /visanet/ssl/stunnel stunnel The second is IPv6. The error is somehow on the remote though. I can connect to the remote with telnet ... just not stunnel. It seems that depending on how inetd is configured, stunnel accepts either the IPv4 or IPv6 whether or not I compil it using USE_IPv6 1 or not ... what am I missing!? I really only need to hack it to connect to this one site, at least for the moment. /visanet/ssl/visanet.conf My .conf file is: output = /tmp/stunnel.log debug = 5 RNDfile = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.rnd RNDoverwrite = yes client = yes connect = ssllab.pgs.wcom.net:443 sslVersion = SSLv2 cert = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.pem EGD = /etc/egd-pool My guess is that this is something really stupid I am doing, but it is not obvious. Any help would be appreciated. I would even take an AIX executable for stunnel that works! Or whatever the correct configure options are. Or???? Thanks, Eric This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice (928) 567-6122 Fax 928-301-7537 -- you may call any time day or night, I turn it off when I sleep :-) Please try to use a land line first (reception often poor). Note the change in the domain from vicspdi.com to vicsmba.com !!!! For Metropolis support and VICS MBA Support!!!! http://www.vicsmba.com Completely updated web site of personal pictures with many new pictures! Includes horses, dogs, Corvairs, and more. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/index.html Corvair pictures including the Judson setup on our 62 Sedan and lots of pictures of Cheryl's 62 Monza Wagon and our 62 Spyder convertible. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/corvairs.html My younger brother Martin has started a very serious car company. A hot rod (very fast) electric roadster is the first offering. The chassis is built by Lotus to their specs. Check it out: http://www.teslamotors.com _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)mirt.net http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice (928) 567-6122 Fax 928-301-7537 -- you may call any time day or night, I turn it off when I sleep :-) Please try to use a land line first (reception often poor). Note the change in the domain from vicspdi.com to vicsmba.com !!!! For Metropolis support and VICS MBA Support!!!! http://www.vicsmba.com Completely updated web site of personal pictures with many new pictures! Includes horses, dogs, Corvairs, and more. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/index.html Corvair pictures including the Judson setup on our 62 Sedan and lots of pictures of Cheryl's 62 Monza Wagon and our 62 Spyder convertible. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/corvairs.html My younger brother Martin has started a very serious car company. A hot rod (very fast) electric roadster is the first offering. The chassis is built by Lotus to their specs. Check it out: http://www.teslamotors.com

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Re: [stunnel-users] How is stunnel started ?
by Gonzalo Diethelm 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Probably through a Run entry in the registry. You should definitely try to use something like CodeStuff's Starter: http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ Best regards. On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:31 +0100, Ben Stover wrote: > After installation stunnel started automatically at Windows startup time. > > I tried to investigate how it is started. > But did neither a classic startup folder entry nor a running service entry. > Did I miss something? > > How is stunnel started ? > > Ben > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > _______________________________________________ > stunnel-users mailing list > stunnel-users(a)mirt.net > http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users > -- Gonzalo Diethelm gonzalo.diethelm(a)aditiva.com

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Error I am receiving in stunnel logfile (more info)
by Eric S. Eberhard 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello Everyone, I tried it on 4.3.3 as well with my re-compiled version ... below are all 5 lines in the log file. stunnel 4.16 on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 stunnel connected from 127.0.0.1:37690 remote socket: Addr family not supported by protocol (66) Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket I have been using this for a while but I had to transfer to a new machine (AIX 4.3 to 5.3) and had to recompile my software and get a newer stunnel. My version is stunnel-3.8p4: I thought it might be related to ipv4 versus ipv6 ... according to AIX documentation I had it set up for ipv4. I tried ipv6 for ducks, no difference. My inetd.conf line is: visanet stream tcp nowait root /visanet/ssl/stunnel stunnel /visanet/ssl/visanet.conf My .conf file is: output = /tmp/stunnel.log debug = 5 RNDfile = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.rnd RNDoverwrite = yes client = yes connect = ssllab.pgs.wcom.net:443 sslVersion = SSLv2 cert = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.pem EGD = /etc/egd-pool My guess is that this is something really stupid I am doing, but it is not obvious. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice (928) 567-6122 Fax 928-301-7537 -- you may call any time day or night, I turn it off when I sleep :-) Please try to use a land line first (reception often poor). Note the change in the domain from vicspdi.com to vicsmba.com !!!! For Metropolis support and VICS MBA Support!!!! http://www.vicsmba.com Completely updated web site of personal pictures with many new pictures! Includes horses, dogs, Corvairs, and more. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/index.html Corvair pictures including the Judson setup on our 62 Sedan and lots of pictures of Cheryl's 62 Monza Wagon and our 62 Spyder convertible. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/corvairs.html My younger brother Martin has started a very serious car company. A hot rod (very fast) electric roadster is the first offering. The chassis is built by Lotus to their specs. Check it out: http://www.teslamotors.com

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Error I am receiving in stunnel logfile
by Eric S. Eberhard 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello Everyone, remote socket: Addr family not supported by protocol (66) I have been using this for a while but I had to transfer to a new machine (AIX 4.3 to 5.3) and had to recompile my software and get a newer stunnel. My version is stunnel-3.8p4: My .conf file is: output = /tmp/stunnel.log debug = 5 RNDfile = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.rnd RNDoverwrite = yes client = yes connect = ssllab.pgs.wcom.net:443 sslVersion = SSLv2 cert = /visanet/ssl/stunnel.pem EGD = /etc/egd-pool My guess is that this is something really stupid I am doing, but it is not obvious. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric This email sent by: Eric S. Eberhard (928) 567-3727 Voice (928) 567-6122 Fax 928-301-7537 -- you may call any time day or night, I turn it off when I sleep :-) Please try to use a land line first (reception often poor). Note the change in the domain from vicspdi.com to vicsmba.com !!!! For Metropolis support and VICS MBA Support!!!! http://www.vicsmba.com Completely updated web site of personal pictures with many new pictures! Includes horses, dogs, Corvairs, and more. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/index.html Corvair pictures including the Judson setup on our 62 Sedan and lots of pictures of Cheryl's 62 Monza Wagon and our 62 Spyder convertible. http://www.vicsmba.com/ourpics/corvairs.html My younger brother Martin has started a very serious car company. A hot rod (very fast) electric roadster is the first offering. The chassis is built by Lotus to their specs. Check it out: http://www.teslamotors.com

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RE: [stunnel-users] Does editing *.conf file require restart of stunnel ?
by Stunnel 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Hi, As far as I know the service needs to be restarted to load the new configuration. Regards Craig -----Original Message----- From: stunnel-users-bounces(a)mirt.net [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@mirt.net] On Behalf Of Ben Stover Sent: 15 January 2007 01:16 PM To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net Subject: [stunnel-users] Does editing *.conf file require restart of stunnel ? Hello, sorry for this newbie question. I did not found the answer in the FAQ. Assume I edit the *.conf file. Is it required to restrat stunnel (service) to enable the changes ? Or is the *.conf file read at ever new stunnel call? If explicit restart is required: would it be possible to add a context menu entry to the Windows systray-Stunnel-icon "restart". This would make handling much more comfortable than always opening a command line window and entering all the commands manually. Thank you Ben ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" - The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)mirt.net http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users

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re: Problem with certificates using smtp/pop
by Klaas 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

> cert = /path/to/certnew.cer > key = /path/to/stunnel.pem > Or concatenate them into one file and use cert = ... only > (no key = ...). > Also take care that the CN is the server FQDN to which the client > connects. Thanks, it works now perfect!

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Re: [stunnel-users] re: Problem with certificates using smtp/pop
by Hans Werner Strube 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

"Klaas" wrote: > I have a part I sent to CA created whit openssl req -new -days > 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out certreq.pem -keyout stunnel.pem > > I have get return a file certnew.cer and I have the file stunnel.pem. And > now I don't know what I have to do next to get this certificate. I have > tried several options but no one works. cert = /path/to/certnew.cer key = /path/to/stunnel.pem Or concatenate them into one file and use cert = ... only (no key = ...). Also take care that the CN is the server FQDN to which the client connects.

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re: Problem with certificates using smtp/pop
by Klaas 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Sorry David that I have misted you e-mail. I'm using stunnel on a Windows server and I have working it all. I use outlook express as mail client and when I pres OK on the message of the certificate it works. But I want to install a real certificate. Only I don't exactly where I have place which part of the certificate and what I place into the stunnel.conf I have a part I sent to CA created whit openssl req -new -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out certreq.pem -keyout stunnel.pem I have get return a file certnew.cer and I have the file stunnel.pem. And now I don't know what I have to do next to get this certificate. I have tried several options but no one works.

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Problems with Powerposter?
by Roger Stevens 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

I'm curious if anyone else has tried Stunnel with Powerposter on the Giganews Usenet network. I (and many other users) have reported problems whereby the post does not complete and just hangs. Per Giganews, this is a software problem and not their servers. Non-SSL posting in Powerposter works fine. but hangs when Stunnel is used usually after a couple of files are successfully uploaded. Any else run into this? TIA! Roger

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re: Problem with certificates using smtp/pop
by David Chase 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

I tried sending directly to you, I must have looked like a spammer. I am ever so slightly pleased to see that I have some company in my frustration with this software. I'll try to help, since the experts seem to be too busy. I've only used it twice, and it was painful both times. Have you gotten it to work at all? That is, what do you see? Do you get a running stunnel process? Do you have (with permissions) ls -l /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem -rw------- 1 root staff 2233 Jan 5 17:25 /usr/local/etc/stunnel/ mail.pem I created it by running this command in that directory: sudo openssl req -new -out mail.pem -keyout mail.pem -nodes -x509 - days 365 I created a stupid certificate, because at some point it looked like it was asking me for my name (David Chase) when what they wanted was my fully qualified domain name (dr2chase.org), so that part of the certificate is wrong. The certificate creation in the makefile asked for this in a slightly more sensible way, using the abbreviation "FQDN", though you have to wonder how busy the authors of some of this security software are, that they cannot take the time to type in "Fully qualified domain name", and instead expect us to figure it out. It can be whiny about permissions, in a non-specific way (as if the software ran a one-way-hash on the permissions, didn't get a match, and expected you to just guess till it worked.) sudo chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/stunnel/ sudo chown root /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf You'll need to copy the sample stunnel.conf file into the real one: sudo cp /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf-sample /usr/local/etc/ stunnel/stunnel.conf You might want to look it over, though I don't recall changing much in mine. You might want to turn on debug logging there; mine seemed to spew in the invoking terminal, instead of any file that I could find, but that was good enough for a start: debug = 7 output = stunnel.log Some part of stunnel created its chroot directory with incorrect (for MacOS, at least) permissions: % ls -ld /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ 948 drwxrwx--T 2 root wheel 68 Jan 5 16:55 /usr/local/var/lib/ stunnel/ That's the one that didn't work, and clearly someone thought carefully about giving it the wrong permissions -- that "T" didn't get there accidentally. This caused silent failure for me. What worked, but might not be secure, is drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 68 Jan 6 00:16 /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ My guess is that it would be better if it were owned by nobody/nogroup, but this is clearly something that trained experts should GET RIGHT, instead of leaving it busted for novices to tinker with. What mail reader are you using? For example, Apple Mail's "connection doctor" will treat an unofficial certificate as a connection failure; only when you actually try to receive or send mail, will you get a chance to trust the certificate. Perhaps my sarcastic remarks will cause someone to actually fix something. Who knows. yours, David Chase

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STunnel not creating connections.
by Paul Morrison 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

I have a problem perhaps someone can help me with. I have setup Stunnel and OpenSSL on a Windows 2003 server. It is configured to accept data on TCP port 2000, decrypt it, then pass it on to TCP port 8014. I have placed the certificates provided for this in a directory and I have told STunnel where these certificates are. The problem I am having is I can see the connection from port 2000 coming in to the system, but STunnel then does nothing before finally dropping the connection. The version of STunnel and OpenSSL are (stunnel 4.15 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14 Oct 2005) I have the same setup at a different site on a different server and it works fine. In the debug.log the following is output: 2007.01.09 13:41:02 LOG7[684:352]: MATSU_GPRS started 2007.01.09 13:41:02 LOG7[684:352]: FD 196 in non-blocking mode 2007.01.09 13:41:02 LOG5[684:352]: MATSU_GPRS connected from 212.183.136.192:57511 2007.01.09 13:41:02 LOG7[684:352]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2007.01.09 13:41:22 LOG3[684:352]: SSL_accept: Peer suddenly disconnected 2007.01.09 13:41:22 LOG5[684:352]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2007.01.09 13:41:22 LOG7[684:352]: MATSU_GPRS finished (0 left) I would normally expect to see details of the SSL connection and the certificates being checked after the line 2007.01.09 13:41:02 LOG7[684:352]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization, but as you can see it does nothing before dropping the connection after 20 seconds. Does anyone know why this installation of STunnel does not seem to be attempting to use the certificates provided? I would be very grateful for any advice. P.S. Do I need to have a Certifcate Authority server setup at the site in order for STunnel to work? Paul Morrison IT Support Specialist TS3 Services Ltd Castle Court, Carnegie Campus Dunfermline KY11 8PB TEL: 01383 629900 Mob: 07918078864 EMAIL: Paul.Morrison(a)ts3services.co.uk <BLOCKED::mailto:Paul.Morrison@ts3services.co.uk>

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Problem with certificates using smtp /pop
by Klaas 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Isn't there no one who knows how do deal with certificate? > Is there no one who can tell me exactly which part of the > certificate I have to place where and how I must configure > stunnel.conf for the certificate >> I have installed stunnel 4.20 on Windows2003 server and have >> created my private key as follow: >> openssl req -new -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out >> certreq.pem -keyout stunnel.pem >> >> After that I have send certreq.pem to my own CA and have >> received a certnew.cer file. But what I have to do next because >> I still receive the message that the CN-name of the certificate >> is not the same with the given name. >> >> I append this certificate (certnew.cer) to my stunnel.pem file like: >> -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- >> data here >> -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- >> -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- >> data here >> -----END CERTIFICATE----- >> >> But this doesn't work. Still receive the message that I also read >> on the stunnel.conf must I config something here? >> cert = stunnel.pem >> key = stunnel.pem >> >> ; Authentication stuff >> ;verify = 2 >> ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath >> ;CApath = certs >> ; It's often easier to use CAfile >> ;CAfile = certs.pem >> ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath >> ;CRLpath = crls >> ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile >> ;CRLfile = crls.pem >> >> Can anyone tell me please what certificate I place where and how config >> the stunnel.conf so I get this working?

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RE: [stunnel-users] URL changes in browser to http from https
by Casey Rayman 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

I figured it out. The webserver was redirecting me to the index.html page so that is where the protocol was getting changed. So now the question changes. Is there a function in stunnel for URL rewriting? In otherwords the webserver sends back "redirect yourself to http:// but stunnel intercepts that before it gets back to your browser to keep the connection secure? Thanks, Casey -----Original Message----- From: stunnel-users-bounces(a)mirt.net [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@mirt.net] On Behalf Of Casey Rayman Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:10 AM To: stunnel-users(a)mirt.net Subject: [stunnel-users] URL changes in browser to http from https I am just starting to experiment with stunnel on Debian Linux, using the standard debian packages. I've got it working so far accepting requests on the local port 443 and connecting on 80, but when the page loads the URL changes back to a non-secure address. To illustrate: https://192.168.1.10 loads a simple static web page and you get the normal warning for the certificate, but after the page loads the URL changes to http://192/168.1.10 . I thought this might just be IE or something but Firefox does it too. Could I be missing a setting in stunnel? Any ideas? Thank you, Casey _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)mirt.net http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users

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URL changes in browser to http from https
by Casey Rayman 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

I am just starting to experiment with stunnel on Debian Linux, using the standard debian packages. I've got it working so far accepting requests on the local port 443 and connecting on 80, but when the page loads the URL changes back to a non-secure address. To illustrate: https://192.168.1.10 loads a simple static web page and you get the normal warning for the certificate, but after the page loads the URL changes to http://192/168.1.10 . I thought this might just be IE or something but Firefox does it too. Could I be missing a setting in stunnel? Any ideas? Thank you, Casey

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Problem with certificates using smtp /pop
by Klaas 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Is there no one who can tell me exactly which part of the certificate I have to place where and how I must configure stunnel.conf for the certificate

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patch: round robin load balancing
by Luke Deller 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi, I noticed that stunnel already does round-robin load balancing of connections when the DNS name specified by the "connect" option resolves to multiple IP addresses. Here is a simple patch which allows the "connect" option to accept a comma separated list of names instead of just a single name. This can be used to load balance tunnelled connections across several servers. For example, to load balance HTTPS connections across 3 HTTP servers (localhost:80, anotherhost:8080 and anotherhost:8081), we could specify: [https] accept = 443 connect = 80,anotherhost:8080,anotherhost:8081 Regards, Luke. ********************************************************************************************** Important Note This email (including any attachments) contains information which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. Any views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of XPlan Technology. It is the duty of the recipient to virus scan and otherwise test the information provided before loading onto any computer system. Xplan Technology does not warrant that the information is free of a virus or any other defect or error. **********************************************************************************************

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re: I am clearly doing something wrong
by David Chase 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Foolishly, I trusted it to create /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ with the correct permissions. The directory that appeared had these permissions: ls -ld /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ drwxrwx--T 2 root wheel 68 Jan 5 16:55 /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ When I replaced it with this directory ls -ld /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 102 Jan 5 20:43 /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ Suddenly, when I ran stunnel, it continued to run. I'd call this a bug. Still not doing quite what I want, (not connecting to elsewhere.com like I expect) but I'm closer. David Chase

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I am clearly doing something wrong
by David Chase 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

But I think the documentation has some serious gaps in it, too. I compiled stunnel, installed it, created certificates, and even turned on debugging in the configuration file. Now, all I want to do is forward port 443 locally to port 80 elsewhere. Says my config file: cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ;key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = SSLv3 ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /usr/local/var/lib/stunnel/ setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode ; client = yes ; Service-level configuration [pop3s] accept = 995 connect = 110 [imaps] accept = 993 connect = 143 [ssmtp] accept = 465 connect = 25 [https] accept = 443 connect = elsewhere.com:80 TIMEOUTclose = 0 and when I run it, it says: sudo /usr/local/sbin/stunnel Password: 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /Users/chase/.rnd 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /Users/chase/.rnd 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: PRNG seeded successfully 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate: /usr/local/ etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/ stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Private key loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: SSL context initialized for service pop3s 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate: /usr/local/ etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/ stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Private key loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: SSL context initialized for service imaps 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate: /usr/local/ etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/ stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Private key loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: SSL context initialized for service ssmtp 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate: /usr/local/ etc/stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Certificate loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/ stunnel/mail.pem 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: Private key loaded 2007.01.05 18:51:01 LOG7[13470:2684415368]: SSL context initialized for service https I see nothing that looks like a complaint, but when I go looking for a stunnel process, there is not one, nor is anyone listening on port 443 at localhost. I cannot be the first person who wanted to do this, but I found both the FAQ and the documentation to be uninformative. How do I keep stunnel running and listening for connections on 443? I tried client=yes, that didn't seem to help. I am running Stunnel 4.20 on MacOS 10.4.8 David Chase

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STunnel transparent + Solaris
by Corey Johnston 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

The documentation mentions that Solaris should support transparent mode for stunnel, yet I receive bind errors when I try to do this. "bind transparent: Cannot assign requested adddress (126)" Seems to suggest that either its actually not possible, or I've got to include something beyond "transparent = yes" in the conf file, or during compilation. Does anybody know if there's anything else special to make this work? Thanks in advance, Corey

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Red Hat 7.0, Stunnel 4.20, and my Transparent Proxy Woes
by Richard Anderson 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

All, I'm attempting to setup Stunnel 4.20 on a RH7.0 box in transparent mode to essentially act as an SSL accelerator. I've gotten the SSL accelerator part to work (which means RH and Stunnel are working fine). But it's when I enable the transparent feature of stunnel I start having problems. The error it returns is : bind transparent: Cannot assign requested address (99) What I know is this: For transparent option to work with stunnel you must be using linux kernel 2.2. (check...red hat 7.0) Transparent proxy option must be enabled in kernel. (check, enabled, recompiled, and booted off that image) IP_FORWARD must be enabled. (check, set this in the sysctl.conf to do it on bootup) But it still won't work. Does anybody have any other ideas as to what I'm missing? thanks, rich _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE Web site and company branded e-mail from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/

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Problem with certificates using smtp /pop
by Klaas 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello, I have installed stunnel 4.20 on Windows2003 server and have created my private key as follow: openssl req -new -days 365 -nodes -config stunnel.cnf -out certreq.pem -keyout stunnel.pem After that I have send certreq.pem to my own CA and have received a certnew.cer file. But what I have to do next because I still receive the message that the CN-name of the certificate is not the same with the given name. I append this certificate (certnew.cer) to my stunnel.pem file like: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- data here -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- data here -----END CERTIFICATE----- But this doesn't work. Still receive the message that I also read on the stunnel.conf must I config something here? cert = stunnel.pem key = stunnel.pem ; Authentication stuff ;verify = 2 ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath ;CApath = certs ; It's often easier to use CAfile ;CAfile = certs.pem ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath ;CRLpath = crls ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile ;CRLfile = crls.pem Can anyone tell me what certificate I place where and how config the stunnel.conf so I get this working?

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Avira Anti-Vir Detects stunnel as virus
by Daniel Tschinder 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

I'm using Avira AntiVir (www.free-av.de) and it detects stunnel 4.20 as virus APPL/Stunnel.A . I do not know what to do against it... as you can see in this list, stunnel was added to the signatures Database of AntiVir: http://www.avira.de/en/threats/section/vdfhistory/vdf_no/6.37.00.53/6.37.00… Maybe one of the devs can check back with avira.... best regards, daniel

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Benchmarks
by Michal Trojnara 17 Dec '06

17 Dec '06

Dear Users, I have updated stunnel performance benchmarks: http://stunnel.mirt.net/perf.html I hope you'll find them useful. The funny thing I currently have 2 hardware accelerator cards, but none of them works: - one of them is too obsolete and its proprietary drivers are no longer available; - the other one is too modern and its PCI-X slot does not work with my ASUS P5WDG2 WS Professional motherboard. I'm pretty sure most users won't even be able to utilize the performance provided by software implementation. The bottleneck will most likely be network connection or the destination server performance. Best regards, Mike

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service reconfiguration by SIGHUP
by Matthew Eaton 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Hi, I've created a patch to Stunnel that reloads all accepting connections from the config file. This will not work for privileged ports in the current implementation. Test at your own risk :) Feedback welcome. Best regards, Matthew diff -urb stunnel-orig/stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c --- stunnel-orig/stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c 2006-11-30 15:47:45.000000000 -0500 +++ stunnel-4.20/src/stunnel.c 2006-12-12 03:34:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ #endif int volatile num_clients=0; /* Current number of clients */ +int volatile conf_updated=0; /* Conf updated ? */ /* Functions */ #ifndef USE_WIN32 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* execution begins here 8-) */ - main_initialize(argc>1 ? argv[1] : NULL, argc>2 ? argv[2] : NULL); signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); /* avoid 'broken pipe' signal */ @@ -78,12 +78,17 @@ } #endif +char *cfg_arg1 = NULL; +char *cfg_arg2 = NULL; + void main_initialize(char *arg1, char *arg2) { ssl_init(); /* initialize SSL library */ sthreads_init(); /* initialize critical sections & SSL callbacks */ parse_config(arg1, arg2); log_open(); stunnel_info(0); + cfg_arg1 = arg1; + cfg_arg2 = arg2; } void main_execute(void) { @@ -105,6 +110,7 @@ SOCKADDR_UNION addr; s_poll_set fds; LOCAL_OPTIONS *opt; + int i; get_limits(); s_poll_zero(&fds); #if !defined(USE_WIN32) && !defined(USE_OS2) @@ -173,6 +179,42 @@ accept_connection(opt); } + if(conf_updated) { + for(i=0; i<fds.nfds; i++) + close(fds.ufds[i].fd); + + /* re-bind local ports */ + for(opt=local_options.next; opt; opt=opt->next) { + if(!opt->option.accept) /* no need to bind this service */ + continue; + memcpy(&addr, &opt->local_addr.addr[0], sizeof(SOCKADDR_UNION)); + if((opt->fd=socket(addr.sa.sa_family, SOCK_STREAM, 0))<0) { + sockerror("local socket"); + exit(1); + } + if(alloc_fd(opt->fd)) + exit(1); + if(set_socket_options(opt->fd, 0)<0) + exit(1); + s_ntop(opt->local_address, &addr); + if(bind(opt->fd, &addr.sa, addr_len(addr))) { + s_log(LOG_ERR, "Error binding %s to %s", + opt->servname, opt->local_address); + sockerror("bind"); + exit(1); + } + s_log(LOG_DEBUG, "%s bound to %s", opt->servname, opt->local_address); + if(listen(opt->fd, 5)) { + sockerror("listen"); + exit(1); + } +#ifdef FD_CLOEXEC + fcntl(opt->fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); /* close socket in child execvp */ +#endif + s_poll_add(&fds, opt->fd, 1, 0); + } + conf_updated = 0; + } } s_log(LOG_ERR, "INTERNAL ERROR: End of infinite loop 8-)"); } @@ -413,9 +455,16 @@ } static void signal_handler(int sig) { /* signal handler */ + if((sig==SIGHUP) && local_options.next) { /* only in service mode */ + s_log(LOG_NOTICE, "Re-reading configuration"); + parse_config(cfg_arg1, cfg_arg2); + conf_updated = 1; + } + else { s_log(sig==SIGTERM ? LOG_NOTICE : LOG_ERR, "Received signal %d; terminating", sig); exit(3); + } } #endif /* !defined USE_WIN32 */

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stunnel patch to support URL lookups for parameters (take 2)
by Dan Jakubiec 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Attached is a patch which extends the "connect=" and "CApath=" options to allow these parameters to be obtained dynamically at connect-time via a URL lookup, rather than statically from the stunnel configuration file. It is a generalization of an earlier patch to 4.04 submitted by Jan Piet-Mens which does something similar using LDAP lookups. Feedback is appreciated! Here is a summary of the functionality, along with some notes: 1. The patch was written to allow stunnel to dynamically route and authenticate incoming connections based on parameters found in the client's certificate. 2. Routing and authentication information is obtained by issuing a URL lookup, so the information can be obtained from a variety of local or remote sources. 3. It is particularly useful in high-volume, load-balancing scenarios where many copies of stunnel are running on multiple front-end servers. It allows the destination socket and client certificate verification info to be obtained on-the-fly from a centralized database. 4. Although primarily intended for use with HTTP, this patch uses the libcurl URL library and should work with all of its supported protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE. As a brief example, an end-user might configure their stunnel as follows: cert = id.pem verify = 2 CApath = ca_dir CAlookup = http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?hash=%h [dynamic] accept = 50000 connect = @http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?common_name=%n In this scenario, an incoming stunnel connection would obtain it's connect info from database.stunnel.org by sending an HTTP request and passing the common name found in the client certificate. Similarly, the client's certificate would be verified using CA certificates obtained via HTTP lookup to the same host. Comments are appreciated. Thanks, Dan Jakubiec

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stunnel patch to support URL lookups for parameters
by Dan Jakubiec 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Attached is a patch which extends the "connect=" and "CApath=" options to allow these parameters to be obtained dynamically at connect-time via a URL lookup, rather than statically from the stunnel configuration file. It is a generalization of an earlier patch to 4.04 submitted by Jan Piet-Mens which does something similar using LDAP lookups. Feedback is appreciated! Here is a summary of the functionality, along with some notes: 1. The patch was written to allow stunnel to dynamically route and authenticate incoming connections based on parameters found in the client's certificate. 2. Routing and authentication information is obtained by issuing a URL lookup, so the information can be obtained from a variety of local or remote sources. 3. It is particularly useful in high-volume, load-balancing scenarios where many copies of stunnel are running on multiple front-end servers. It allows the destination socket and client certificate verification info to be obtained on-the-fly from a centralized database. 4. Although primarily intended for use with HTTP, this patch uses the libcurl URL library and should work with all of its supported protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE. As a brief example, an end-user might configure their stunnel as follows: cert = id.pem verify = 2 CApath = ca_dir CAlookup = http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?hash=%h <http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?hash=%25h> [dynamic] accept = 50000 connect = @http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?common_name=%n<http://database.stunnel.org/map_client.php?common_name=%25n> In this scenario, an incoming stunnel connection would obtain it's connect info from database.stunnel.org by sending an HTTP request and passing the common name found in the client certificate. Similarly, the client's certificate would be verified using CA certificates obtained via HTTP lookup to the same host. Comments are appreciated. Thanks, Dan Jakubiec

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Re: [stunnel-users] service reconfiguration by SIGHUP
by Hans Werner Strube 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Matthew Eaton wrote: > I've created a patch to Stunnel that reloads all accepting connections > from the config file. This will not work for privileged ports in the > current implementation. Please explain why it will not work for privileged ports. Does this hold even if the master stunnel process runs as root? And what happens to active connections on SIGHUP? Are they simply broken?

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Re: [stunnel-users] STunnel performance Issues
by Michal Trojnara 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

"Jones Scott - sjones" <Scott.Jones(a)acxiom.com> wrote: > But during load testing the system starts breaking down. It takes about > 1/5 the load to break down apache and stunnel, than directly against my > jboss node. Could you elaborate on "break down", please? Is there an error? A core dump? What is the error message? A core dump stack backtrace? First performance recommendation is to disable libwrap support: ./configure --disable-libwrap && make clean && make && make install Best regards, Mike

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STunnel performance Issues
by Jones Scott - sjones 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I am having problems will apache and stunnel being able to handle load. I am using stunnel to encrypt my ajp traffic from apache to jboss. This helps me bridge our internal firewall. But during load testing the system starts breaking down. It takes about 1/5 the load to break down apache and stunnel, than directly against my jboss node. Any performance tuning recommendations would be great. I am using stunnel straight out of the box. I will place the configuration file below. Thanks. ; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 ; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular configuration ; Please make sure you understand them (especially the effect of chroot jail) ; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode ;cert = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ;key = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = SSLv3 ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /usr/local/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/ setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ;compression = rle ; Workaround for Eudora bug ;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS ; Authentication stuff ;verify = 2 ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath ; CApath is located inside chroot jail CApath = certificates ; It's often easier to use CAfile CAfile = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/certs.pem ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath ; CRLpath is located inside chroot jail ;CRLpath = /crls ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile ;CRLfile = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/crls.pem ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting ;debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [ajp] accept = 8009 connect = xxxx2:8009 [sql] accept = 1433 connect = XXXX1:443 *************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. ****************************************************************************

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SSL_accept: Peer suddenly disconnected
by James Brown 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

I'm trying to send an email through stunnel (which is running on the mail server), but I keep getting an error. $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/stunnel 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /Users/jlbrown/.rnd 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /Users/jlbrown/.rnd 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: PRNG seeded successfully 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Certificate: /etc/postfix/ smtpd.cert 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Certificate loaded 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Key file: /etc/postfix/ smtpd.key 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: Private key loaded 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: SSL context initialized for service ssmtp 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG5[6092:2684407744]: stunnel 4.19 on i686-apple- darwin8.8.1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG5[6092:2684407744]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv4 Auth:LIBWRAP 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG6[6092:2684407744]: file ulimit = 256 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG6[6092:2684407744]: FD_SETSIZE = 1024 (some systems allow to increase this value) 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG5[6092:2684407744]: 125 clients allowed 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: FD 8 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6092:2684407744]: ssmtp bound to 0.0.0.0:465 2006.12.07 15:35:27 LOG7[6093:2684407744]: Created pid file /usr/ local/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:2684407744]: ssmtp accepted FD=9 from 192.168.1.4:62929 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: ssmtp started 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: Connection from 192.168.1.4:62929 permitted by libwrap 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:2684407744]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG5[6093:25188864]: ssmtp accepted connection from 192.168.1.4:62929 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG6[6093:2684407744]: Child process 6094 finished with code 0 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): before/ accept initialization 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write certificate A 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server done A 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG3[6093:25188864]: SSL_accept: Peer suddenly disconnected 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG5[6093:25188864]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2006.12.07 15:35:52 LOG7[6093:25188864]: ssmtp finished (0 left) My stunnel.conf is: cert = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert key = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key sslVersion = all socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log [ssmtp] client = no accept = 465 connect = 25 Does this mean that the SMTP proxy listening on port 25 is not accepting the connection from stunnel? Thanks, James.

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Installing stunnel without need a compiler
by Boxall, John 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Mike et al, I want to be able to automate the installation of stunnel in the same manner that I've already automated our openssh installation, however, I've run into a problem (lack of knowledge) with the "make install" step. This is for Solaris (2.5.1 to 10) and AIX (5.1 to 5.3). I'm not quite ready to create the packages in either Solaris (pkg) or AIX (rpm) formats. At a high level, here is what I would like to achieve: - On a build server (per OS version) - transfer all of the necessary stuff (gcc, openssl, stunnel source, etc.) - install the necessary stuff (gcc, openssl, etc.) - un'tar the stunnel package - run configure (with the appropriate options and paths) - run "make" - tar the stunnel directory & transfer it to a holding system - Put together the necessary pieces on the holding system to install stunnel on all targets. - On a target system (per OS version) - transfer all of the necessary stuff (libgcc, openssl, tar'ed stunnel directory, etc.) - install the necessary stuff (libgcc, openssl, zlib, etc.) - un-tar the stunnel file - run "make install" Using the same flow with our openssh packages, I do not have to install a compiler (gcc) and its support packages. What, if anything, can I do with the stunnel installation to not have to install a compiler? Regards, John Boxall

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Re: [stunnel-users] Win: sometines don't connect
by Miroslav Geisselreiter 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi My comments inline .... >>>>>> Miroslav Geisselreiter <mg(a)intar.cz> 12/01/06 8:04 PM >>> <SNIP> someotherpc config is here: service = stunnel cert = stunnel.pem CAfile = cacerts.pem socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 verify = 3 taskbar = yes [VNC] accept = 5600 connect = localhost:5900 I doubt how the "connect" option can be configured like this? should n't it be "connect = <yourfirstPC>:5900" and the accpet option should be "somotherpc:5600" <SNIP> Hope this helps! Regards Prem I think it is correct. On the first PC stunnel listens on localhost:5900 and passes securelly to second PC to port 5600. VNC on first PC connect to localhost port 5900. On the second PC stunnel accepts connection from any PC on port 5600 and passes to localhost (still second PC) to port 5900. VNC on second PC listens on port 5900. Miroslav Geisselreiter -- Odchozi zprava neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovano AVG. Verze: 7.5.432 / Virova baze: 268.15.6/566 - datum vydani: 3.12.2006 16:36

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performance configuration for rehl3 & JBoss
by Jones Scott - sjones 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

I am having problems will apache and stunnel being able to handle load. I am using stunnel to encrypt my ajp traffic from apache to jboss. This helps me bridge our internal firewall. But during load testing the system starts breaking down. It takes about 1/5 the load to break down apache and stunnel, than directly against my jboss node. Any performance tuning recommendations would be great. I am using stunnel straight out of the box. I will place the configuration file below. Thanks. ; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 ; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular configuration ; Please make sure you understand them (especially the effect of chroot jail) ; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode ;cert = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ;key = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = SSLv3 ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /usr/local/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/ setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ;compression = rle ; Workaround for Eudora bug ;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS ; Authentication stuff ;verify = 2 ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath ; CApath is located inside chroot jail CApath = certificates ; It's often easier to use CAfile CAfile = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/certs.pem ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath ; CRLpath is located inside chroot jail ;CRLpath = /crls ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile ;CRLfile = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/crls.pem ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting ;debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [ajp] accept = 8009 connect = xxxx2:8009 [sql] accept = 1433 connect = XXXX1:443 ************************************************************************* The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank you. *************************************************************************

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Win: sometines don't connect
by Miroslav Geisselreiter 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi, I use stunnel 4.16 on Windows 2000 and XP with this simple config: cert = stunnel.pem CAfile = cacerts.pem socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 client = yes verify = 3 [VNC2] accept = localhost:5900 connect = someotherpc:5600 When I start stunnel (as Win service), sometimes it forwards to someotherpc:5600 (it is correct) but sometimes it doesn't. Here is the debug 7 info: 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: PRNG seeded successfully 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: Certificate loaded 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: Private key loaded 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: Loaded verify certificates from cacerts.pem 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:4060]: SSL context initialized for service VNC2 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG5[3676:4060]: stunnel 4.16 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14 Oct 2005 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG5[3676:4060]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG5[3676:3108]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:3108]: FD 180 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:3108]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2006.12.01 14:52:32 LOG7[3676:3108]: VNC2 bound to 127.0.0.1:5900 When it doesn't work correcly, it stops here, otherwise continues: 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:3108]: VNC2 accepted FD=188 from 127.0.0.1:1364 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:3108]: Creating a new thread 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:3108]: New thread created 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: VNC2 started 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: FD 188 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG5[3676:4008]: VNC2 connected from 127.0.0.1:1364 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: FD 212 in non-blocking mode 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: VNC2 connecting 192.168.1.172:5600 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: connect_wait: connected 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: Remote FD=212 initialized 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG6[3676:4008]: *** starting OCSP verification *** 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG5[3676:4008]: VERIFY OK: depth=0, some info .... 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate request A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client certificate A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write certificate verify A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 1 items in the session cache 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 1 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 1 client connects that finished 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 client renegotiations requested 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 server connects that finished 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 server renegotiations requested 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 session cache hits 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 session cache misses 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG7[3676:4008]: 0 session cache timeouts 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG6[3676:4008]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2006.12.01 14:52:34 LOG6[3676:4008]: Negotiated ciphers: AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 someotherpc config is here: service = stunnel cert = stunnel.pem CAfile = cacerts.pem socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 verify = 3 taskbar = yes [VNC] accept = 5600 connect = localhost:5900 It runs as win service too. Please help. -- Miroslav Geisselreiter -- Odchozi zprava neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolovano AVG. Verze: 7.5.432 / Virova baze: 268.15.3/562 - datum vydani: 1.12.2006 13:12

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HTTPS proxy authentication
by Brett.Carroll＠bpd.treas.gov 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

I am trying to get stunnel to work through a HTTPS proxy but the current version doesn't seem to include the patch for this. Does the latest version (4.20) include https proxying support?

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Problem in Stunnel with too many connections
by ~ Kunal Sharma ~ 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi Friends, I've just joined this group. I would take this as an oppurtunity to discuss a problem I've been facing in using Stunnel. I've been using Stunnel for quite some time now. It has worked very well all this while. Recently, I had to shift our webserver onto the Internet and Stunnel accepts the https connections on the server's behalf. The problem is there are about 4.5 million clients out there in the field and there's a client coming up to the server atleast every second, if not less. Stunnel accepts the connections and after a while (like an hour) it just dies ! I see that at a point there are about 950 active connections and thats the maximum I could see before it dies. Could someone help me diagnose the problem (or better to fix it) - Is there any performance related issue thats a known problem and I don't know of ? - What I can look at to see what could be the possible cause ? - I haven't had a chance to look at the logs yet. Probably they might tell me something. - Any other pointers / inputs / suggestions would be heartily welcome. I've not been to my office so I won't be able to attach the necessary information like the version of stunnel, the logs, configuration options etc. But promise to send them as soon as I'm back on Monday after Thanksgiving. Thanks and Regards, Kunal

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stunnel 4.20 released
by Michal Trojnara 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear Users, I have just released a new version of stunnel. Here is the ChangeLog entry: Version 4.20, 2006.11.30, urgency: MEDIUM: * Release notes - The new transfer() function has been well tested. I recommend upgrading any previous version with this one. * Bugfixes - Fixed support for encrypted passphases (broken in 4.19). - Reduced amount of debug logs. - A minor man page update. Home page/download: http://stunnel.mirt.net/ sha1sum for stunnel-4.20.tar.gz fie: a9a449b28a4f34ab22f6b4bfaa81c1904a5883c4 Best regards, Mike

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Adding header to SMTP msgs
by Eric B. 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Hi, I am looking at stunnel as a way to add SSL/TLS to an SMTP server, but my issue is that the SMTP server must be able to determine the address of the incoming connection to perform RBL checks, reverse MX record checks, PTR checks, etc. From what I can understand, however, the SMTP server will only see the client side of the pipe (localhost) as the originating address, instead of the originating machine IP. Is there any way to get the SMTP server to see that original IP address? Or baring that, is there anyway that stunnel can insert a header into the mail indicating the original IP address? Thanks! Eric

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must restart stunnel to add a new cert before it recognized it...
by Rami Michael 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Hello everyone, My stunnel setup is working fine, got mysql being hit from a couple of boxes but my question is this... I have stunnel setup so i copy the cert created from the remote client over to the local server so remote connections are authenticated. Now that works fine and dandy, the issue is, if i am adding a new remote client, i add the cert from the client to my certs.pem locally but i need to restart the stunnel process before stunnel will "read in" the new cert. I know this does not sound like a big deal, but if i have 20 machines connected through stunnel to this local box and i need to restart stunnel whenever i need to add a new box or take off an old one, i don't think its good. I use stunnel for mysql so i got these guys doing inserts and a broken connection would really mess things up for me... i think maybe there is a flag i can set? or maybe send the process some type of command to reload the certs? Any help would be appreciated... all relevant info included below. All requested info for posts to the group are found below Here is my stunnel.conf verify = 3 CAfile = /etc/stunnel/certs.pem cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem setuid = nobody setgid = nobody pid = /tmp/stunnel.pid debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log client = no [mysqls] accept = 3309 connect = 3306 Some output from the stunnel.log at high debug level 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG5[32244:3086689984]: stunnel 4.05 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /dev/urandom 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG6[32244:3086689984]: PRNG seeded successfully 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Loaded verify certificates from /etc/stunnel/certs.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG5[32244:3086689984]: FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=1024 -> 500 clients allowed 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: mysqls bound to 0.0.0.0:3309 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32245:3086689984]: Created pid file /tmp/stunnel.pid stunnel -V 2006.11.13 23:03:14 LOG3[32248:3086505664]: -V: No such file or directory (2) Syntax: stunnel [filename] | -fd [n] | -help | -version | -sockets filename - use specified config file instead of /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -fd n - read the config file from specified file descriptor -help - get config file help -version - display version and defaults -sockets - display default socket options uname -a Linux ramison 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL #1 Fri Oct 6 05:59:54 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3) openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

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s_poll_wait timeout errors
by James Brown 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

I'm trying to set up an SSL connection from stunnel to Postfix, but can not get it to work. stunnel log says: 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: ssmtp started 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: FD 9 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: Connection from 192.168.1.12:51469 permitted by libwrap 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG5[5240:25188864]: ssmtp connected from 192.168.1.12:51469 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: ssmtp connecting 127.0.0.1:25 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: connect_wait: connected 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: Remote FD=10 initialized 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG5[5240:25188864]: Negotiations for smtp (client side) started 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:2684415368]: Cleaning up the signal pipe 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG6[5240:2684415368]: Child process 5251 finished with code 0 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 220 mail3.bordo.com.au ESMTP Postfix 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: -> 220 mail3.bordo.com.au ESMTP Postfix 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: -> EHLO localhost 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-mail3.bordo.com.au 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-SIZE 10240000 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-ETRN 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-XFORWARD NAME ADDR PROTO HELO SOURCE 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250-8BITMIME 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 250 DSN 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: -> STARTTLS 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: <- 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG5[5240:25188864]: Protocol negotiations succeded 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: SSL state (connect): before/ connect initialization 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: SSL state (connect): SSLv2/ v3 write client hello A 2006.11.16 11:40:31 LOG6[5240:25188864]: init_ssl: s_poll_wait timeout 2006.11.16 11:40:31 LOG5[5240:25188864]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2006.11.16 11:40:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: ssmtp finished (0 left) 2006.11.16 11:35:31 LOG7[5240:25188864]: ssmtp started Postfix's log shows: Nov 16 11:35:31 Fax-Machine postfix/smtpd[5252]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 16 11:35:31 Fax-Machine postfix/smtpd[5252]: setting up TLS connection from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 16 11:40:31 Fax-Machine postfix/smtpd[5252]: SSL_accept error from localhost[127.0.0.1]: -1 Nov 16 11:40:31 Fax-Machine postfix/smtpd[5252]: lost connection after STARTTLS from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 16 11:40:31 Fax-Machine postfix/smtpd[5252]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] stunnel.conf is: ; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 ; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular configuration ; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode ; The default certificate is provided only for testing and should not ; be used in a production environment cert = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert key = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key debug=7 output=/dev/stdout ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Workaround for Eudora bug ;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS ; Authentication stuff ;verify = 2 ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath ;CApath = certs ; It's often easier to use CAfile ;CAfile = certs.pem ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath ;CRLpath = crls ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile ;CRLfile = crls.pem ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting ;debug = 7 ;output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode ;client = yes ; Service-level configuration protocol = smtp sslVersion = all ;[pop3s] ;accept = 995 ;connect = 110 ;[imaps] ;accept = 993 ;connect = 143 [ssmtp] client = yes accept = 465 connect = 25 ;[https] ;accept = 443 ;connect = 80 ;TIMEOUTclose = 0 ; vim:ft=dosini Does anyone have any idea where I am going wrong? Thanks, James.

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stunnel : remote connection refused
by Arunkumar Arumugam 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi I am using stunnel 3.26 on i386 redhat -linux-gnu with PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with openssl 0.9.6b engine I am getting the following error when try to use stunnel to a remote ipadress on specific port Lets say the remote ip address be a.b.c.d and port P1 and local ipaddess e.f.g.h and port P2 e.f.g.h:P2 ------> a.b.c.d:P1 my logs say that a.b.c.d:p1 started a.b.c.d:p1 connected from 127.0.0.1:xxxxx a.b.c.d:p1 connecting a.b.c.d:p1 remote connect: connection refused (111) failed to initialize remote desccriptor abcd:p1 finished (0 left) I do not understand why after connecting from local host to a.b.c.d , a.b.c.d tries to reconnect to itself. I have the same setup in another server, it works fine. This one was working fine, until i rebooted the machine. Regards Arun A -- ARUN ARUMUGAM Galbraith's Law of Human Nature: Faced with the choice between changing ones' mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

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Testing stunnel 4.19
by Michal Trojnara 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Dear Users, Please test stunnel 4.19 in you environments and post any problem to the list, so I can fix it in stunnel 4.20 (to be released soon). I expect stunnel 4.20 to be the recommended stable release for quite a long time. 8-) Best regards, Mike

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Re: [stunnel-users] No way to keep the key encrypted?
by Michal Trojnara 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:30, joe(a)strout.net wrote: > That's good news! ...But, how do I use it (in daemon mode)? I tried > launching stunnel with an encrypted key, and it simply failed saying > that the pass phrase was wrong. But it never asked me for a pass > phrase. How do I make it do so? I confirm it's broken in stunnel 4.19. I'll fix it in 4.20. 4.18 works fine. Best regards, Mike

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Re: [stunnel-users] No way to keep the key encrypted?
by Hans Werner Strube 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Michal Trojnara wrote: > Obviously private key encryption should not be used in inetd mode. It > works fine in daemon mode and on Win32 platform. Yes, but only when stunnel is started manually. When started automatically on system boot, there is usually nobody present to enter the password of the encrypted private key (except when the key is stored somewhere and its input provided by some script or program - again a security hole). This is not a special problem of stunnel but of all SSL-using servers.

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Re: [stunnel-users] No way to keep the key encrypted?
by Michal Trojnara 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Joe Strout wrote: > The private key cannot be encrypted [cut] > This seems very dangerous to me; This paragraph of the manual was obsolete so I've removed it. Obviously private key encryption should not be used in inetd mode. It works fine in daemon mode and on Win32 platform. Best regards, Mike

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"wrong version number" error
by joe＠strout.net 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

With a cleartext key (see previous thread), I'm able to get stunnel to actually run. However, it's failing when I try to connect to my server with https, generating the following output: 2006.11.15 09:10:11 LOG5[18343:25188864]: https accepted connection from 67.174.105.26:39907 2006.11.15 09:10:11 LOG7[18343:25188864]: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization 2006.11.15 09:10:11 LOG3[18343:25188864]: SSL_accept: 1408F10B: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number 2006.11.15 09:10:11 LOG5[18343:25188864]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2006.11.15 09:10:11 LOG7[18343:25188864]: https finished (0 left) The important part here I suppose is "SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number". Can anyone elaborate on what this means, and what I can do about it? Thank you, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- joe(a)strout.net Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/

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No way to keep the key encrypted?
by joe＠strout.net 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I see from the manual: "Two things are important when generating certificate-key pairs for stunnel. The private key cannot be encrypted, because the server has no way to obtain the password from the user. To produce an unencrypted key add the -nodes option when running the req command from the OpenSSL kit." This seems very dangerous to me; anybody who gets ahold of that key file will then be able to impersonate my server, right? Symbian SSL Proxy will simply ask me for my pass phrase when I launch it. Is there any way to get stunnel to do something equivalent -- maybe by decrypting it on the fly and piping it to stunnel on launch, so that there is never a decrypted file on disk? Or maybe I can decrypt the key to a file, launch stunnel, and then immediately delete that file? How have others dealt with this? Thanks, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- joe(a)strout.net Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/

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[RE][stunnel-users] ciphers=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
by algol sigfrid 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

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Stunnel 4.19 released
by Michal Trojnara 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Dear Users, A new version of stunnel has just been released. Version 4.19, 2006.11.11, urgency: LOW/EXPERIMENTAL: * Release notes - There are a lot of new features in this version. I recommend to test it well before upgrading your mission-critical systems. * New features - New service-level option to specify OCSP server flag: OCSPflag = <flag> - "protocolCredentials" option changed to "protocolUsername" and "protocolPassword" - NTLM support to be enabled with the new service-level option: protocolAuthentication = NTLM - imap protocol negotiation support added. - Passphrase cache was added so the user does not need to reenter the same passphrase for each defined service any more. - New service-level option to retry connect+exec section: retry = yes|no - Local IP and port is logged for each established connection. - Win32 DLLs for OpenSSL 0.9.8d. * Bugfixes - Serious problem with SSL_WANT_* retries fixed. The new code requires extensive testing! Homepage: http://stunnel.mirt.net/ Download: ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/stunnel/ sha1sum for stunnel-4.19.tar.gz: d58da8117278d71598279c77935585de81b74394 Best regards, Mike

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Error when I try adding compression to stunnel.conf
by Rami Michael 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

So it seems i found the answer to my own question... compression was added in stunnel 4.06. I am using 4.05 :)

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Does stunnel supports IPv6
by Ravi Gowda 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi All, Can we use ipv6 addresses in stunnel? The problem that I am facing is I want to have secure ldap sessions using two IPv6 systems but none of them speak SSL... How to go about it??? Thanks in Advance Ravi Gowda

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Error when I try adding compression to stunnel.conf
by Rami Michael 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hey everyone, I was going through the stunnel FAQ when I noticed you could add compression. I was very excited and wanted to give it a try but when I tried to add compression = zlib to my stunnel.cong I got this error when starting stunnel... Starting stunnel: file /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf line 10: Specified option name is not valid here Line 10 is the exact place where i stuck this name value pair. I don't know where else i could put it, i tried putting it everywhere! All requested info for posts to the group are found below Here is my stunnel.conf verify = 3 CAfile = /etc/stunnel/certs.pem cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem setuid = nobody setgid = nobody pid = /tmp/stunnel.pid debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log client = no compression = zlib [mysqls] accept = 3309 connect = 3306 I am using centOS and installed stunnel and openssl via the available rpms, using yum. zlib is installed as well, but i don't think this is a zlib issue, it seems like it just doesn't like "compression". Was compression added in a version later than 4.05? Am i missing something incredinbly simple? Some output from the stunnel.log at high debug level 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG5[32244:3086689984]: stunnel 4.05 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /dev/urandom 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG6[32244:3086689984]: PRNG seeded successfully 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: Loaded verify certificates from /etc/stunnel/certs.pem 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG5[32244:3086689984]: FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=1024 -> 500 clients allowed 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: mysqls bound to 0.0.0.0:3309 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32244:3086689984]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode 2006.11.13 23:03:10 LOG7[32245:3086689984]: Created pid file /tmp/stunnel.pid stunnel -V 2006.11.13 23:03:14 LOG3[32248:3086505664]: -V: No such file or directory (2) Syntax: stunnel [filename] | -fd [n] | -help | -version | -sockets filename - use specified config file instead of /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -fd n - read the config file from specified file descriptor -help - get config file help -version - display version and defaults -sockets - display default socket options uname -a Linux ramison 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL #1 Fri Oct 6 05:59:54 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3) openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

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setting up HTTPS service?
by joe＠strout.net 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Complete newbie here, so please bear with me. I want to set up HTTPS service on a Mac OS X (10.4.7) machine running a custom web server. I imagine that Stunnel could be made to listen on the standard HTTPS port (443), do the encryption/decryption, and pass the resulting data to/from the HTTP port (80, or a custom port I specify). This is probably very easy, but none of the documentation or examples I found covered this. Has anyone done this? Or if not, can you sketch out how I would go about it? Any gotchas or caveats I should be aware of? Many thanks, - Joe

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resending FD_SETSIZE and file ulimit
by Arunkumar Arumugam 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hi Guys - I have a stunnel setup in a linux box kernel 2.4 Advanced sever release 2.1AS (pensacola) . I am trying to increase the number of file descriptors with which stunnel could handle. So I did a ulimit -n 4096 for root and restarted the stunnel process. Now in the stunnel logs i see, ..... FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=4096- > 500 clients allowed. I dont completely understand the relation between FD_SETSIZE and file ulimit. I also read that a single stunnel connection might use around 2 or 3 file descriptors. So what is the cap on the number of file descriptors used by stunnel. To make it use , around 4096 file descriptors should i recompile the stunnel again with FD_SETSIZE set to 4096.? -- ARUN ARUMUGAM Galbraith's Law of Human Nature: Faced with the choice between changing ones' mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

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stunnel on Windows with pkcs11
by Neil M. 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Can anyone provide more details in how to get this setup working? I've setup stunnel in client mode just fine for normal SSL operations, but now I need to load a client certificate from a token. I've looked at the example in the documentation and changed the paths accordingly, but that doesn't seem to work, stunnel errors out complaining about a DSO. Neil

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FD_SETSIZE and file ulimit
by Arunkumar Arumugam 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hi Guys - I have a stunnel setup in a linux box kernel 2.4 Advanced sever release 2.1AS (pensacola) . I am trying to increase the number of file descriptors with which stunnel could handle. So I did a ulimit -n 4096 for root and restarted the stunnel process. Now in the stunnel logs i see, ..... FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=4096- > 500 clients allowed. I dont completely understand the relation between FD_SETSIZE and file ulimit. I also read that a single stunnel connection might use around 2 or 3 file descriptors. So what is the cap on the number of file descriptors used by stunnel. To make it use , around 4096 file descriptors should i recompile the stunnel again with FD_SETSIZE set to 4096.? -- ARUN ARUMUGAM Galbraith's Law of Human Nature: Faced with the choice between changing ones' mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

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stunnel 4.16 wrapped around an ldap server causing very slow binds
by Mark McCoy 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hey all, I have an instance of stunnel 4.16 on Solaris 10 that I am trying to use to wrap Sun Directory Server LDAP traffic in SSL. LDAP 'binds' take over 2 minutes to complete using stunnel, but only a split second (as they should) when using an SSH tunnel. I have disabled tcpwrappers per the stunnel FAQ with no results, and tried settting delay = "yes" and "no", with no differences in the results. An interesting thing is that if I try to bind using the wrong password, the "Invalid Credentials" error returns immediately. Using the correct password, the bind hangs for over 2 minutes. Any ideas on what to look for? ------------- Output of stunnel -version: stunnel 4.16 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4 Global options debug = 5 pid = /usr/local/stunnel/var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options cert = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = /usr/local/stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none -------------- -- Mark McCoy -- Professional Unix geek Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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newbie sendmail + smtp question
by Fred nietzsche 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

My ISP requires all my mail to go to mail.myISP.net via SSL to port 465. I have sendmail compiled with STARTTLS, configured authinfo and I've set up sendmail's smarthost to send everything to mail.myISP.net I run stunnel like this. stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf -c -d 25 -r mail.myISP.net:465 There are no errors in the log. I can see stunnel listening on 25 with netstat. When I try to send mail I get: bash-3.00# sendmail -v sc00b123(a)yahoo.com <test sc00b123(a)yahoo.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... Which just hangs for ever. My stunnel.conf looks like: cert = /etc/stunnel/mail.pem chroot = /var/stunnel/ setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup pid = /stunnel.pid socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log [smtp] accept = 25 connect = 465 Thanks for any help, hints, etc.. --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates.

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stunnel[2840]: Error binding pop3s to 0.0.0.0:995
by fxper 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I'm trying to use stunnel on a redhat machine to securely check email, via xinetd via pop3d. My /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s looks like this: service pop3s { socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/stunnel log_on_success += USERID log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } And netstat just shows xinetd on 995: netstat -apn|grep 995 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2797/xinetd When I try to check mail with my client hitting port 995, I get this in /var/log/secure using debug level 7: Nov 1 16:17:24 myhostname xinetd[2797]: START: pop3s pid=2840 from=x.x.x.x Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: stunnel 4.04 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /dev/urandom Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: PRNG seeded successfully Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: Certificate: /usr/share/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: Key file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: FD_SETSIZE=1024, file ulimit=1024 -> 500 clients allowed Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: FD 4 in non-blocking mode Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: Error binding pop3s to 0.0.0.0:995 Nov 1 16:17:54 myhostname stunnel[2840]: bind: Address already in use (98) Any suggestions? Thanks! --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

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How to disable SSLv2
by Tommi Nieminen 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

I'm using Stunnel 4.18. I would like to disable SSLv2, but allow SSLv3 and TLSv1. Is this currently possible in Stunnel? I've tried two things so far: first I tried to use the option options = SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 (from "man SSL_CTX_set_options") It didn't work. This is what I got: 2006.10.27 18:32:48 LOG7[6358:3082897088]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd 2006.10.27 18:32:48 LOG7[6358:3082897088]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd 2006.10.27 18:32:48 LOG7[6358:3082897088]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.10.27 18:32:48 LOG7[6358:3082897088]: PRNG seeded successfully file /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf line 18: Illegal SSL option Nothing gets logged, the above is the response to the startup command. The other thing I tried, though I really didn't expect it to work, was replacing the "options" option with sslVersion = SSLv3 TLSv1 This option seems to accept only one version at a time, or alternatively all of them with "all" on the right hand side, so this failed, stunnel didn't start. Any suggestions? The only thing I can think of is that the SSL option SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 is something that should have been when configuring the OpenSSL installation, and since I have a readily wrapped package, it has not been included there. In that case I could install OpenSSL from the scratch. But before I try that, I thought I would ask if somebody were already familiar with the problem. Tommi Nieminen --------------------------------------------------- Here is the stunnel config file I was using: CAfile = /etc/stunnel/root-cert.pem cert = /etc/stunnel/device-cert.pem key = /etc/stunnel/device-key.pem output = /var/log/stunnel/stunnel.log pid = /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid debug = 7 client = no [https] accept = 443 connect = 192.168.10.17:5010 verify = 1 options = SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 ;sslVersion = SSLv3 TLSv1

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stunnel patch for extra logging
by Steven Van Acker 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi, we use stunnel in server-mode where an SSL enabled client can connect to our stunnel, and then stunnel connects to a non-SSL backend server. The backend server logs incoming connections from stunnel (source IP and port), but stunnel doesn't log the same information. This makes it difficult to match logs between stunnel and the backend. This patch solves exactly this problem. I rewrote the patch so that it can be cleanly applied to any future (and past) version of stunnel. >From the website: "How do I get a patch included into the release versions of Stunnel? Only patches released into the public domain stand a chance of getting into the actual Stunnel source. This means revised BSD patches are likely acceptable. Original BSD and GNU patches are not for example." Since I would like very much that this patch makes it into the next release, I'll release it into the public domain or any other license that makes this possible. kind regards, Steven -- My amazon wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/1DB4XNEIEQBPB

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Re: [stunnel-users] Fork Error
by Michal Trojnara 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

On Friday 27 October 2006 22:39, John O'Fallon wrote: > I do believe, though, that the problem is due to a change in Stunnel > between version 4.15 and 4.17, since the crash occurs when running > 4.17, but reverting to 4.15 on exactly the same system clears it up. > I have seen this on at least 2 different Mac servers. Please make some tests for me: 1. Try: ./configure --disable-libwrap make clean make make install 2. Check if there are some zombies produced by stunnel. 3. Include your configuration file and the output of "stunnel -version" with your next email. Best regards, Mike

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SMTP & TLS
by Eric B. 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi, I've been looking over using stunnel to secure SMTP connections, but am a little confused about how the protocol works. From what I've read, the STARTTLS command is used to allow a client/server to upgrade a connection from plaintext to SSL secured. Further to that, from what I understand, the concept is to allow/use a single port to initiate all connections - ex: port 25. >From what I can tell from stunnel however, is that once stunnel issues the STARTTLS command, if the client doesn't respond in kind, then the connection is terminated. I've tried reading the RFC, but can't seem to find what happens in the case where the client rejects or does not respond to the STARTTLS command. Logicially, I would expect the SMTP connection to continue normally in plaintext. Apparently, this is not how stunnel works. Can someone please help fill in the blanks for me please? What is supposed to happen if the client refuses the STARTTLS request from the server? If the connection is supposed to die, why bother with the STARTTLS request at all, and not just impose the SSL encrypted tunnel from the very beginning (as per the old SSMTP specs)? Thanks, Eric

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Fork Error
by John O'Fallon 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Since upgrading to Stunnel 4.17, I occasionally get the following error: 2006.10.18 23:08:45 LOG3[7007:25232896]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable (35) 2006.10.18 23:08:45 LOG5[7007:25232896]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket The problem doesn't occur right away, but after some number of hits on the server. Reverting to Stunnel 4.15 corrects the problem. This is an OS X 10.4 Mac. I haven't confirmed the problem with 4.18, because the release notes indicate mainly changes relevant to Win32. Has any one else seen the problem? Michal, any thoughts? TIA, John

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Stunnel hangs on big flows of data
by Dario Mariani 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi... I'm deploying stunnel on some servers. I did some tests, and i never had problems. For example, i tried 5k parallel connections, and i didn't have any problem. But, i have problems when a small number of connections wants to transfer big chunks of information; the connection hangs. This is a snippet of logs: Server side: 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:1]: oracle11521 accepted FD=226 from 192.168.22.10:39721 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: oracle11521 started 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: FD 226 in non-blocking mode 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG5[20302:200]: oracle11521 connected from 192.168.22.10:39721 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): before/ accept initialization 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read client hello A 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write server hello A 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 write finished A 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 flush data 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: SSL state (accept): SSLv3 read finished A 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 3 items in the session cache 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 0 client connects (SSL_connect ()) 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 0 client connects that finished 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 0 client renegotiations requested 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 199 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 194 server connects that finished 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 0 server renegotiations requested 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 173 session cache hits 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 0 session cache misses 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: 18 session cache timeouts 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG6[20302:200]: SSL accepted: previous session reused 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: FD 227 in non-blocking mode 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: oracle11521 connecting 192.168.22.13:1521 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: connect_wait: connected 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: Remote FD=227 initialized 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:200]: TCP_NODELAY option set on remote socket 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:75]: SSL_read returned WANT_READ: retrying 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:75]: SSL_read returned WANT_READ: retrying 2006.10.20 16:00:58 LOG7[20302:75]: SSL_read returned WANT_READ: retrying client side: 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG6[12415:91]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG6[12415:91]: Negotiated ciphers: DES-CBC3- SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: Socket closed on read 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL write shutdown 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL alert (write): warning: close notify 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL_shutdown retrying 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL doesn't need to read or write 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL alert (read): warning: close notify 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: SSL closed on SSL_read 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: Socket write shutdown 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG5[12415:91]: Connection closed: 3663 bytes sent to SSL, 5239 bytes sent to socket 2006.10.20 16:16:01 LOG7[12415:91]: oracle11521 finished (3 left) The timings are shifted, i don't know if the delta of time is related to a misconfiguration of clock on the machines, or are snippets taken from different events... i don't have direct access to the machines. I tried to make a test (client and server on the same machine) client: nc localhost 10001 >>/dev/null stunnel accept on 10001 and connect to localhost:11521 on the server side: stunnel accept on 11521 and connect on 1521 cat 230megsfile | nc -l -p 1521 & 2>&1 >>/dev/null so, when the nc on client side connects, the server starts the cat. It did complete correctly within a pair of minutes on an ibook 64 1.33 1g ram, but with LOADS of want_read and want_write errors on both sides of stunnel. The server and client are working on "big iron", i mean some superdome hardware with 30-40 cpu on both sides, and with an estimated traffic of 10gig/day And, important... the version of the stunnel instances is 4.15 Can you help me? Bye, dario.

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