Vpn "Hang"

Wow. Glad I found this post. I can now stop looking for a quick solution. I just did an update last night, rebooted and this morning I can no longer get past "Authenticating..." from my clients. I'm not sure if it was a security update, or 10.4.8. I'll have to check once I get home tonight. No other configurations were changed.

Did you have this issue with 10.4.7? I have never had a problem with it until today.

I checked and everything looked good. Once I reset the VPN process it started working. I am however still having the issue. It seems to work for a day or two, then it cuts out. We run a Panther VPN here at work without any trouble.

I should add that I am only running PPTP. I'd post my settings but I can't log in to get them right now. It does work fine after a reset with VPN connection times in excess of 15 hours and no issues.

I'd like to concur.. recent security update may have broken VPN for us too. We have our SA setup through a Sonicwall TZ-170 and VPN Tracker on clients and all was working fine up until a few days ago. Now, we get to XAUTH and it does authenticate and then hangs... logs look like it has made the connection to the network but we are unable to connect to any servers.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

-Tim

There are a couple of reasons that this may be happening. Check your system.log. If you see a message like this:

:could not load the replica file.

you'll need to bounce the process that's causing the problem. It's either DirectoryService or slapd; the process is the word before the colon.

Good luck! You'll need to keep a window to the server open, because you won't be able to log into the server when it's in this state (the authentication system is dead, so nobody can log in). I have a perl script that does the monitoring and restart; that's definitely the best way to go.