[stunnel-users] Tunnel from win32 to Unix

Tue Feb 26 09:14:05 CET 2019

Hi,
I am a totally newbie with this. We have intranet system in Windows Server (32bit) which reads a database (Oracle) situated in Unix machine via a tunnel made by Putty.exe. That works well except that the connection gets lost every now and then and it must be manually logged in every time. So I decided to try stunnel which we used earlier to read email from email server. 
However I cannot set the connection successfully. This is what I have tried now (among many other alternatives):

[Kanto2]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:1501
connect = kanto2.oulu.fi:22
protocolUsername = <username>
protocolPassword = <password>

stunnel reads the configuration OK except this notification:

  [:] Service [Kanto2] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks

but when the database is tried to read happens this:

  2019.02.18 13:32:30 LOG5[1]: Service [Kanto2] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:64699
  2019.02.18 13:32:30 LOG5[1]: s_connect: connected 130.231.240.100:22
  2019.02.18 13:32:30 LOG5[1]: Service [Kanto2] connected remote server from 130.231.241.250:64700
  2019.02.18 13:32:30 LOG3[1]: SSL_connect: 140770FC: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
  2019.02.18 13:32:30 LOG5[1]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket

I have tried different protocol alternatives with no help.
What could be the problem? Is this kind of use even possible?

thanks

Eetu Pikkarainen
PhD (Ed.), (Title of) Adjunct Prof., University Lecturer (in Education) Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland Research Group: https://wiki.oulu.fi/display/theored

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