June 2009 - stunnel-users

Stunnel 4 failing to connect to gmail
by Asif Iqbal 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

I am faling to connect to gmail. Not sure what that bind error means. iqbala@ghar:~$ sudo stunnel4 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: PRNG seeded successfully 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Private key loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SSL context initialized for service ssmtp 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: stunnel 4.22 on i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: 500 clients allowed 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: Error binding ssmtp to 74.125.93.111:587 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: bind: Cannot assign requested address (99) Here is how my conf file looks like iqbala@ghar:~$ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf | egrep -v "^;|^$" cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem foreground = yes sslVersion = SSLv3 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/ setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 pid = /stunnel4.pid socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log client = yes [ssmtp] accept = smtp.gmail.com:587 connect = 25 Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel on the same machine
by subrata＠indiatimes.com 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

The configuration files are : pid = /var/stunnel.pid ;chroot = /var/lib/stunnel setuid = nobody setgid = nobody foreground =yes ; 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 [mysqls] accept = 3307 connect = 192.168.1.6:3307 On 192.168.1.6 ---------------------- pid = /var/stunnel.pid setuid =nobody setgid = nobody foreground = yes client = no ; Service-level configuration [pop3s] accept = 995 connect = 110 [imaps] accept = 993 connect = 143 [ssmtp] accept = 465 connect = 25 [mysqls] accept =3307 connect =3306 connecting like /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p -P 3307 Enter password: On entring password the following lines appear : ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 104 Subrata ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Hatch <bri(a)stunnel.org> To: subrata(a)indiatimes.com Sent: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 10:02:17 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Stunnel on the same machine Near 2007-10-05 22:17 +0530, subrata(a)indiatimes.com insisted: > After starting stunnel and connecting the mysql client/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p the flow gets stuck at the Enter password prompt any suggestions how to proceed from there. What do your stunnel configuration files look like? Other problem: mysql client may decide to use a local domain socket when connecting to localhost, thwarting your attempts to go via Stunnel. You might want to 'strace mysql ...' and look for the connect() lines. -- Brian Hatch Time flies like an Systems and arrow. Fruit flies Security Engineer like a banana. http://www.ifokr.org/bri/ Every message PGP signed -- 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] rewrite Destination: when rewriting Host:
by Brian Hatch 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Sometime near 2007-11-11 00:15 -0500, Marcio Marchini shouted: > Researching online one can see that WebDAV's spec requires that they > check both src and dest URLs for protocol & port. But with some proxies or > SSL fronts like stunnel, only one of the URLs is rewritten, so one goes as > http and the other as https. Here's one person explaining it, much better > than me: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-03/0549.shtml Stunnel doesn't currently have the ability to scan and re-write the plaintext. For HTTP redirects it could possibly be implemented (re-write only the response before ^$, and redirects aren't chunked and don't have content lengths to work with, etc) but you'd still need enough HTTP logic to handle keepalives and such. It's not trivial and not likely. Another option would be to have something already HTTP aware doing the rewriting in between stunnel and subversion. A re-writing proxy. Another option would be to use mod_rewrite in apache to rewrite the urls. But the best way would be to just use SSL inside apache and drop stunnel entirely. -- Brian Hatch The best way to accelerate Systems and a Windows machine is at Security Engineer 9.8 meters per second http://www.ifokr.org/bri/ squared. Every message PGP signed

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Re: [stunnel-users] Dynamic hosts
by Ludolf Holzheid 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

On Tue, 2009-06-23 20:52:30 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Ludolf Holzheid <lholzheid(a)bihl-wiedemann.de > > wrote: > > > >On Tue, 2009-06-23 10:33:14 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote: > >> > >>If I did it the way you are suggesting then 5 concurrent users would > >>fire up 30 processes. On my system starting the daemon starts 6 > >>processes, and if I start it up again I get another 6 processes. > > > >Is this still true with 'foreground = yes'? > > Yes. You are right. On detaching to the background, there is an additional fork(), but the parent dies early. So the number of persistent processes is the same. > >For reducing the number of processes, you might also try to configure > >stunnel with --disable-libwrap. > > I can try that wasn't aware of it as a configuration option There is also a '--with-threads=pthread' option that may help to lower the number of processes. However, on modern operating systems, fork()ing is not as expensive as it looks like. In most cases, the text segment is shared between the two processes and the pages on data/BSS segments are not copied until changed ('copy-on-write'). I don't know if the usage of OS resources is larger for the multi-threaded or the multi-tasked approach. Ludolf P.S.: Please reply to the list, so the community is able to follow all of the thread. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Ludolf Holzheid Tel: +49 621 339960 Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH Fax: +49 621 3392239 Floßwörthstraße 41 e-mail: lholzheid(a)bihl-wiedemann.de D-68199 Mannheim, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------

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stunnel - connection issue with larger number of connections
by Franjo Stipanovic 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hello, have anyone experienced a issue with stunnel when there's a larger number of concurrent connections (>50)? I've got my application service and stress tester for it. I've placed stunnel in front of application service because I allow clients only to connect to application service using SSL. When stress tester communicates directly with application service with 100 concurrent connections (threads) there's no issue, but when I connect over SSL (thru stunnel) more than 50% of connections fails with error : connection refused :( Seems like there's a limit in windows server for number of threads per process since stunnel does one thread per connection, right? Any idea on how can I test this further? stunnel information: stunnel 4.22 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 Global options debug = 5 RNDbytes = 64 RNDoverwrite = yes service = stunnel taskbar = yes Service-level options cert = stunnel.pem ciphers = AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+RC4:@STRENGTH key = stunnel.pem session = 300 seconds stack = 65536 bytes sslVersion = SSLv3 for client, all for server TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none 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 -- -- -- 8192 SO_SNDBUF -- -- -- 8192 SO_RCVLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_SNDLOWAT -- -- -- -- SO_RCVTIMEO -- -- -- 0:0 SO_SNDTIMEO -- -- -- 0:0 SO_REUSEADDR 1 -- -- 0 IP_TOS -- -- -- 0 IP_TTL -- -- -- 32 TCP_NODELAY -- -- -- 0 Software configuration: Windows Server 2003 R2 - Enterprise x64 Edition Hardware configuration: Intel Core 2 Duo 1 GB RAM Kind regards, fritz

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Re: [stunnel-users] Dynamic hosts
by Ludolf Holzheid 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

On Tue, 2009-06-23 10:33:14 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote: > Well, that would be one way of doing it. I would prefer to have > stunnel running as a daemon and just pass a FQDN and local port number > to it. But it may not be able to do that. You are right. Currently, stunnel's configuration can't be changed at run-time (and I still don't see a need for that). > If I did it the way you are suggesting then 5 concurrent users would > fire up 30 processes. On my system starting the daemon starts 6 > processes, and if I start it up again I get another 6 processes. Is this still true with 'foreground = yes'? For reducing the number of processes, you might also try to configure stunnel with --disable-libwrap. If you run stunnel from within a CGI, you will be accepting connections from localhost only anyway. HTH, Ludolf -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Ludolf Holzheid Tel: +49 621 339960 Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH Fax: +49 621 3392239 Floßwörthstraße 41 e-mail: lholzheid(a)bihl-wiedemann.de D-68199 Mannheim, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [stunnel-users] Dynamic hosts
by Ludolf Holzheid 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

On Tue, 2009-06-23 08:13:08 -0400, Terry Riegel wrote: > Take a look at mail2web.com > > You type in your server, it dynamically connects secure or otherwise. Ah, o.k. you want to use stunnel from inside a CGI. You could have the CGI dynamically write the stunnel configuration file then. Maybe you should specify 'foreground = yes' in order to avoid detaching to the background and to get stunnel's log messages written to the web server log. This depends on the CGI, of course. Ludolf -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Ludolf Holzheid Tel: +49 621 339960 Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH Fax: +49 621 3392239 Floßwörthstraße 41 e-mail: lholzheid(a)bihl-wiedemann.de D-68199 Mannheim, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Dynamic hosts
by Terry Riegel 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Hello, I have just set up stunnel to allow unsecured client pop3 connections to my secured pop3 server chroot = /stunnel/ pid = /stunnel.pid setuid = www setgid = www client = yes foreground=yes [995] accept = localhost:10110 connect = mail.clearimageonline.com:995 And it works as expected. Is there a way to set it up so it can dynamically connect to any server. Something like... connect = *:995 I was able to start a new instance of stunnel with a separate config file but this seems inefficient as it starts up 6 processes each time. What I would like to do is dynamically add/subtract servers that it can connect to. My goal here is to build a webmail client that can use stunnel to do the secure connections to either POP or IMAP servers. My client software uses unsecured sockets. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Terry Riegel

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Install, Starting & Using Stunnel on OS X (more)
by m i l e s 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

Hi, I forgot a few things in my last msg, that were implied but not explicitly stated. 1.) I downloaded and installed stunnel-4.27. 2.) Im not running darwin ports. 3.) When I installed I entered the commands on the command line without ever touching xCode. 4.) I am running MAC OS 10.5.7. I will have to do a later install on MAC OS 10.4.11. 5.) I need to connect my laptop (test machine) to an ldap server. The ldap server is NOT running stunnel, and I have no control over the ldap server. I am wanting to create a secure connection from my machine to the target server. +++++++++++++++++++++ Previous Msg Below. +++++++++++++++++++++ Hi I'm a newbie to stunnel. I have a couple of questions....ok, a zillion. However I'll stick to the basics. I found this in the archives that apply to my situation: http://marc.info/?l=stunnel-users&m=121848237124000&w=2 I followed those instructions that Tom Shaw gave, and I can't tell whether or not this thing is installed at all. http://marc.info/?l=stunnel-users&m=121848703131936&w=2 I think that the files are in the right places. And now when I type in stunnel on the command line, I get this as a response: 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /Users/miles/.rnd 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /Users/miles/.rnd 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: PRNG seeded successfully 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG3[582:2691602208]: stunnel.pem: No such file or directory (2) I suppose that's an improvement over the command line returning no response for stunnel. So I guess it installed. I have a feeling that the config file (the sample that came with) is what's causing it to respond the way that it is... However, I also see that its throwing an error about the PEM file, that it thinks that its not there. Is there any way to check to see if its pointing at the right file for the pem ? Or to use another crt file ? Now the question becomes how the hell do I start this thing ? (I'm running leopard [10.5.7] for test purposes, but I'll have to do this all over again for a tiger install [10.4.11]...) Then once I get it started, how the hell do I initiate what needs doing ? I tried this ->> stunnel -o /Users/Miles/config.lgo -c -d 80 -r 134.84.119.230:636 Which returns -> 2009.06.20 13:34:32 LOG3[738:2691602208]: -o: No such file or directory (2) Obviously its yapping about a file, in this case I'm assuming the log file where its being referenced. Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to set up a secure tunnel to an ldap server at umn.edu. I got this to work a while back but now I have to set this up from scratch....it was set up for me the last time. I wasn't paying attention and now Im kicking myself. The example I post is running in client mode and not server mode ? I was looking at THIS page: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100683/stories/2002/03/23/settingUpStunnelUnderMa… I'm not entirely certain that what I want to do is run in client mode given what I'm wanting to do... Any help would be a great relief. Thanks ahead of time... Sincerely, Miles.

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Install, Starting & Using Stunnel on OS X.
by m i l e s 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

Hi I'm a newbie to stunnel. I have a couple of questions....ok, a zillion. However I'll stick to the basics. I found this in the archives that apply to my situation: http://marc.info/?l=stunnel-users&m=121848237124000&w=2 I followed those instructions that Tom Shaw gave, and I can't tell whether or not this thing is installed at all. http://marc.info/?l=stunnel-users&m=121848703131936&w=2 I think that the files are in the right places. And now when I type in stunnel on the command line, I get this as a response: 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /Users/miles/.rnd 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /Users/miles/.rnd 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG7[582:2691602208]: PRNG seeded successfully 2009.06.20 12:27:37 LOG3[582:2691602208]: stunnel.pem: No such file or directory (2) I suppose that's an improvement over the command line returning no response for stunnel. So I guess it installed. I have a feeling that the config file (the sample that came with) is what's causing it to respond the way that it is... However, I also see that its throwing an error about the PEM file, that it thinks that its not there. Is there any way to check to see if its pointing at the right file for the pem ? Or to use another crt file ? Now the question becomes how the hell do I start this thing ? (I'm running leopard [10.5.7] for test purposes, but I'll have to do this all over again for a tiger install [10.4.11]...) Then once I get it started, how the hell do I initiate what needs doing ? I tried this ->> stunnel -o /Users/Miles/config.lgo -c -d 80 -r 134.84.119.230:636 Which returns -> 2009.06.20 13:34:32 LOG3[738:2691602208]: -o: No such file or directory (2) Obviously its yapping about a file, in this case I'm assuming the log file where its being referenced. Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to set up a secure tunnel to an ldap server at umn.edu. I got this to work a while back but now I have to set this up from scratch....it was set up for me the last time. I wasn't paying attention and now Im kicking myself. The example I post is running in client mode and not server mode ? I was looking at THIS page: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100683/stories/2002/03/23/settingUpStunnelUnderMa… I'm not entirely certain that what I want to do is run in client mode given what I'm wanting to do... Any help would be a great relief. Thanks ahead of time... Sincerely, Miles.

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