Openvpn 2.1_rc7 in Hardy: ifconfig-pool-persist broken

[Michael Wyraz]

In the version of openvpn which is in hardy and hardy-updates (2.1_rc7) the feature ifconfig-pool-persist (means that a client will always get the same ip) is broken. The file containing the IPs is always empty.

I solved the problem for me by installing the version provided with karmic.

[Adil Arif (adisari06)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Judging from your description, I am going to assign this bug to the “openvpn” package in hopes that it will have a faster response. If you believe that I have chosen the wrong package, please change your bug to the correct one. Good luck on getting it fixed!

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I'm marking this fix released based on the statement that karmic's openvpn is fixed.
In order to have this fix brought back to hardy via hardy-updates, you will need to "Nominate for Release". The change/fix would be evaluated via the SRU guidelines.

[Imre Gergely (cemc)]

I CAN'T confirm this bug on Hardy. As per the manpage:

       --ifconfig-pool-persist file [seconds]
              Persist/unpersist ifconfig-pool data to file, at seconds intervals (default=600), as well as on program startup and shutdown.

I ran an openvpn on Hardy with the following options:

ifconfig-pool 172.16.22.224 172.16.22.255
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt 10

At startup there was a file named ipp.txt created, it was empty. Then I connected a client which got an IP address from the pool and after 10 seconds the ipp.txt file was updated. Because by default it saves the file every 10 minutes, it's easy to think it doesn't get anything, but if you shut the openvpn server down, it automatically saves the IP addresses in the file.

@Michael: if you could provide more details about your setup, we could try reproducing the problem. Thanks.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".