March 2012 - stunnel-users

Re: [stunnel-users] Memory allocated in a different thread at network.c, line 63
by Philippe A. 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello Michal, 2012/3/5 Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara(a)mirt.net> > > I am using fork mode because of leaks with pthread. In 4.33+pthread, >> stunnel virt size (per top) went up to 216m after 40k transactions. In >> fork mode, stunnel size after the same test was 20744 (kilobytes). In >> 4.45, I have 187m and 20676k respectively. >> > > I observed the same symptoms. Stunnel grows to ~200MB of virtual memory > after some time of usage. Then it stops growing further. I guess this > issue is caused by heap fragmentation rather than a memory leak. Otherwise > the growth would not be limited to ~200MB. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**C_dynamic_memory_allocation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_dynamic_memory_allocation> I ran a test overnight that confirmed your point. I generated 480k+ stunnel transactions. This morning, stunnel memory usage is virt=187m and res=42m. My result after 40k transactions was exactly the same (in both cases with pthread+zlib). > I understand that virt includes shared libs, and that any issue with a >> shared lib will impact virt size. I did not have the opportunity to test >> without zlib support in openssl. Since we are not using compression, I >> wonder how much avoiding zlib would help. >> > > zlib only uses lots of memory when it's enabled. > I ran another test to clarify this. zlib appears to be adding around 3 megabytes at most. This is at least what I see under my setup and type of usage. pthread+zlib, 40k transactions before: virt=20680, res=792 after: virt=187m, res=42m pthread+nozlib, 40k transactions before: virt=20688, res=896 after: virt=185m, res=39m I have seen no benefit of compiling without zlib in fork mode. I guess it only makes forking a bit lighter. 2012/3/5 Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara(a)mirt.net> > You may also try to set a lower value of MMAP_THRESHOLD to reduce heap > fragmentation: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/malloc.3.html > This will be worth a look. Knowing what is influencing stunnel size is nice since it can avoid us restarting the processes once in a while (which we currently never do in fork mode). Thanks for your great help!

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How to pass remote IP to local SMTP/POP3 server
by Zdenek Valach (INBOX) 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi I have question, because I was not able to find answer anywhere on internet. I started to use Stunnel in server mode to provide POP3S/SMTPS functionality. Everything works fine except that I am missing remote IP of connecting client. I am using Windows version so I can not use transparent proxy mode working on Unix. Is there way how to make Stunnel for example after each establishment of TCP connection to send to SMTP/POP3 server port some special command like REMOTEIP 123.123.123.123<crlf> to pass this information there. I know it is not in SMTP/POP3 standard but it is simple for me extend behavior of SMTP/POP3 service by this command? Thank you very much for any advice Zdenek ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

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mknod: not owner building stunnel on Solaris SPARC 10 zone
by Jiri ROHLICEK 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hello,I've been building stunnel 4.52 on Solaris 10 SPARC zone. Configure and make went fine, make install failed in tools with error if uname | grep SunOS; then \ ../auto/install-sh -c -d -m 755 /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev; \ mknod /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero c 13 12; \ chmod 666 /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero; \ fi SunOS mknod: Not owner -- mknod is not allowed in solaris zone, only in global. One of many notices of this error skayser's http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03031.html asks if mknod is needed on solaris 10. So I tried after configure comment out the mknod section in tools/Makefile. -- install-data-local: ... ... if uname | grep SunOS; then \ ${INSTALL} -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev; \ mknod $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev/zero c 13 12; \ chmod 666 $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev/zero; \ fi -- Now make install ends OK and stunnel works fine (I use it as client only). Isn't creating ./dev/zero not needed anymore? Thanks Jiri Rohlicek jrohlicek(a)aplis.cz

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Username and Password in Stunnel
by Jim Murphy 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

I have a program that only allows me to enter a From email address and a mail server IP in its setup. Is there any way that I could enter a username and a password in stunnel.conf and let Stunnel send this information out to Office 365 or Gmail for delivery? Thanks! Jim

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Re: [stunnel-users] Memory allocated in a different thread at network.c, line 63
by Philippe A. 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hello Michal, 2012/3/5 Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara(a)mirt.net> > I fixed it: > ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/**beta/stunnel-4.53b10.tar.gz<ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/beta/stunnel-4.53b10.tar.gz> > Please give it a try and let me know whether it works for you. I tried the beta and the error is definitely gone. However I will stick with 4.45 for now as my next deployment is already prepared. Thanks a lot for your assistance!

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Couple of issues with 4.45
by Philippe A. 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hello, I have encountered a couple of issues with stunnel 4.45 on RHEL 5.5. I tried configuring stunnel to log messages in /var/log/messages and later found that messages were logged both in that file AND /var/log/messages. In stunnel.conf, I had specified: debug=local6.info In syslog.conf: local6.* /var/log/stunnel.log I could achieve what I wanted only with the combination of the following two options: syslog=no output=/usr/local/app/stunnel/var/stunnel.log Is this expected? The second issue I have noticed is that stunnel seems to have a bit of trouble handling the hup signal. If you start stunnel specifying a relative path to the config, sending hup will cause stunnel to log and error but it won't exit. 2012.03.01 16:31:29 LOG5[19000:0]: Reading configuration from file etc/server.conf 2012.03.01 16:31:29 LOG3[19000:0]: etc/server.conf: No such file or directory (2) 2012.03.01 16:31:29 LOG3[19000:0]: Cannot read configuration 2012.03.01 16:31:29 LOG3[19000:0]: Failed to reload the configuration file If you specify an absolute path, no error will be reported but stunnel will exit anyway.

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No sub folders, calendar or contacts
by Jonathan Harrison 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Dear sirs I am using Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, Outlook 2007 and 4 x gmail accounts (1 x personal (gmail.com) and 3 x business (baroni-limited.com, hosted by gmail). I have set up Stunnel, I belive the latest version and created a SSL license as instructed. The Stunnel Telnets OK and I can send and recieve eMails (I do send directly via my ISP rather than use Stunnel) without any problem. Where I seem to be having problems is that: I have no sub folders to each account. None are appearing. I have no calendars - I have followed the instructions but they fail to load. I have no contacts. Message from Outlook: Sync error > > Task 'Synchronizing subscribed folders for Baroni.' reported error > (0x800CCC0E) : 'Outlook cannot synchronize subscribed folders for Baroni. > Error: Cannot connect to the server. If you continue to receive this > message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider > (ISP).' > > Task 'Internet Calendar Subscriptions' reported error (0x8004010F) : 'The > operation failed. An object cannot be found.' > Config attached - I hope. It is most likely I have missed something or done something wrong. I have not found anything to help me on the web or archives, could you please advise. If you feel you need a copy of the the logs, please advise and I shall happily provide what I can. I am assuming I have just missed something. -- Regards Jonathan

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FIPS_mode_set:fingerprint does not match
by Jack 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

I have the following problem running stunnel on Centos 6.x 64bit with the following error: I have been search with google to see if there was a solution but nothing was found Thank you for your reply and your help, hopefully I can get this solved. ******************************************************************************** Clients allowed=500 stunnel 4.52 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010 Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE,FIPS Auth:none Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Reading configuration from file /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf FIPS_mode_set: 2D06C06E: error:2D06C06E:FIPS routines:FIPS_mode_set:fingerprint does not match *******************************************************************************

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Stunnel in Client / Server configuration
by Michael Curran 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Hello, I have 2 servers in different locations across the country. I am using them as a paired tunnel that both act as server and client Server A has this configuration (cert definitions left out on purpose, but exist and are valid) ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = all ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4 setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ;compression = rle TIMEOUTclose=0 ; 128-bit or highter only ciphers = HIGH:MEDIUM ; Workaround for Eudora bug options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS options = NO_SSLv2 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = local7.info ;warning [Tunnel from Server B] accept = 1.2.3.4:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:8082 [Tunnel to Server B] accept = 5.6.7.8:3132 connect = 9.10.11.12:4000 client = yes Server B (cert definitions left out on purpose, but exist and are valid) ; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) sslVersion = all ; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on Win32 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4 setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 ; PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /stunnel.pid ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ;compression = rle TIMEOUTclose=0 ; 128-bit or highter only ciphers = HIGH:MEDIUM ; Workaround for Eudora bug options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS options = NO_SSLv2 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = local7.debug ;warning [Tunnel to Server A] accept = 10.1.2.3:9443 connect = 1.2.3.4:443 client = yes [Tunnel from Server A] accept = 9.10.11.12:4000 connect = 10.4.5.6:3132 Communication through Server A (client) to Server B (server) works as expected Communication through Server B (client) back to Server A (server) recieves this error curl: (35) error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (this is all the further it gets, the client says hello and the server responds with this) If I skip the local stunnel config and pass the traffic publicly through to Server A (running in client mode), from Server B, I get the expected http response I setup to test the tunnel. Im just assuming that if I am passing from Stunnel from one system to stunnel on another, one of them should be client and the other should be server. This works well on our old configurations and as far as I can see from a stunnel and network route perspective all rules are identical. Why would it work from Server B to Server A on the response if I go directly to Server A, but fail locally? The configuration looks correct, what else could I check?

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Multiple Config Files
by Scott McKeown 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi All, I'm new to the STunnel system but I'm loving what I have seen so far. However, I was wondering if its possible to have a setup something along the lines of the following: general.cfg - containing my general server system details http.cfg - containing the details of my HTTP server pop3.cfg - containing the details of my pop3 server etc. etc. but linking them all from one file so that if I want to remove the pop3 service I can just remove the pop3.cfg file and one line from the base file. I hope that someone understands what I'm getting at but if you need any more info please just let me know. Yours, Scott

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