Anyone unable to access OpenVPN.net?

[mxnerd]

I was unable to access OpenVPN.net the whole Saturday, anyone same problem?

OpenVPN.net's IP is 74.54.73.229 (e5.49.364a.static.theplanet.com)

I was able to trace, able to ping, but webpage won't show up. The website seems on theplanet.com network, located in (Houston/Dallas?) .

Anyone has same problem?

I have exact experience with my uncle's company's web/email service at Hostgator last week, which is also seems on theplanet.com network. Can ping, can tracert, but just can't access the web/email, but Hostgator insisted that they don't see any problem on their side. We are so angry since for 3 days and Hostgator can't do anything and we decided to go back to Godaddy. The website IP was 74.53.*.*, quite close to OpenVPN's IP


I'm in SoCAL, I tried AT&T, Charter and Verizon network and none can visit the site.

I wonder whether Hostgator/ThePlanet is the same company.

Can anyone test it for me from other location? Thanks.

I've downloaded OpenVPN software a few days ago and wanted to set it up during weekend but can't access the website to read the documentation.

 

[Engineer]

Per this, it's down (currently at least).

 

[mxnerd]

Thanks for the link! (http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com)

I do hope it can provide more detail information.

By the way, found that HostGator and ThePlanet is not the same company according this

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=673001

Hostgator uses ThaPlanet as its data center.

 

[mxnerd]

It seems OpenVPN.net always shutdown their server during weekend (late Saturday). It's down again now.

I found another great website can monitor servers around the world:

http://internetsupervision.com/

I'm close to finishing setting up OpenVPN. It's a bit quirkey, but seems pretty fast.

Connected to the OpenVPN server successufully, but LAN routing not working yet.

Have to change corporate IP range from the popular 192.168.1.x range.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Does openvpn work w/ Vista yet? i f'n hate PPTP and i need a better solution.

 

[mxnerd]

Yes, OpenVPN works with Vista (mine is Vista64), need administrator rights.

found some articles useful

http://www.runpcrun.com/howtoopenvpn

http://www.carbonwind.net/ISA/...OpenVPNandISApart1.htm

I don't have ISA server, so 2nd article does not apply for me.

Be sure to add "topology subnet" option in .opvn file, or you are going to get 4 IPs and its own subet for each connection and got confused.

DO NOT set OpenVPN service to start itself until everything is tested fully, use OpenVPN GUI to test the configuration first.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: mxnerd
Yes, OpenVPN works with Vista (mine is Vista64), need administrator rights.

found some articles useful

http://www.runpcrun.com/howtoopenvpn

http://www.carbonwind.net/ISA/...OpenVPNandISApart1.htm

I don't have ISA server, so 2nd article does not apply for me.

Be sure to add "topology subnet" option in .opvn file, or you are going to get 4 IPs and its own subet for each connection and got confused.

DO NOT set OpenVPN service to start itself until everything is tested fully, use OpenVPN GUI to test the configuration first.

nice, if i can get this going then I can drop PPTP like a bad habit.