VPN Not Working

[thomasps]

My VPN used to work before. Now I can no longer connect. I looked in the control panel and when I check the VPN it says:
Inactive
Port 1194/UDP has always been forwarded to my Amahi IP, so that is not the issue. I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.
Thanks.

[radioz]

Check out the VPN troubleshooter in the Wiki. Perhaps that will help.

[thomasps]

Thanks, radioz. I did check the VPN troubleshooting in the wiki. It's pretty basic though (e.g. check that you r not trying to vpn from the same network, check port fw, make sure u r not using this ISP etc). The problem is that it used to work just fine before. I wonder if my ISP has changed something: how can I check if a port is (A) open and (B) correctly forwards to my Amahi IP?

[radioz]

Well, you can go to the hda web page and click on the 'your control panel' at the bottom of the screen.
That has a 'Check VPN connection' button that will tell you if Amahi can see your VPN port. I think this tells you if your router and firewall are open for the VPN connection.

Another thing you can do is use an external client (outside your network) and do:
nslookup <yourAmahiName>.yourhda.com (where <yourAmahiName> is the user name you registered on the Amahi web site - not your hda user name). This will tell you if your VPN is visible to the DNS system.

Hope that helps!

[thomasps]

Before doing anything I deleted my router entry for forwarding port 1194, then I created it again. It works! I don`t know why it did that, but it works (it doesn`t surprise me given the crappy router I`m forced to use by my ISP).