[stunnel-users] server is down message

[Christopher Schultz]

Paul,

On 6/23/20 15:10, Coviello, Paul wrote:
> I’m an Admin on the box and just made sure everything was started as the
> Administrator.  Is this not enough?

I would avoid running any service as administrator. Once the config
file(s) has been read, stunnel just shuttles data between ports. There
is no reason for it to have elevated privileges.

Also, Thomas may not know that on Windows, anyone can bind to any port,
so port-permissions shouldn't be an issue even when not running as
Administrator.

Have you "disabled" any ports[1]?

  netsh int ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp

It's also possible that you are trying to bind to 127.0.0.1:1972 while
another process has already bound to 0.0.0.0:1972[2]. Is anything else
listening on [anything]:1972?

Hope that helps,
-chris

[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48478869/cannot-bind-to-some-ports-due-to-permission-denied

[2]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/so-exclusiveaddruse

> *From:*Thomas Ward [mailto:teward at thomas-ward.net]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:47 PM
> *To:* Coviello, Paul; 'stunnel-users at stunnel.org'
> *Subject:* RE: [stunnel-users] server is down message
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> Permission Denied is a pretty good example of you not access to bind ports.
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> Thats less an stunnel issue and more a "are you running as admin" issue.
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> From: "Coviello, Paul" <pcoviello at ccsusa.com>
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> Date: 6/23/20 13:08 (GMT-05:00)
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> To: "'stunnel-users at stunnel.org'" <stunnel-users at stunnel.org>
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> Subject: [stunnel-users] server is down message
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> Hi I have a windows 10 machine that I’ve got this running on, and the
> screen shot below is what I keep getting and I am unable to find the issue,
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> Can someone please shed some light as to what is wrong? And what else
> you may need.
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> Thanks
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> Paul
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