Openvpn Your Certificate Is Not Yet Valid
You may have noticed when you started using the openvpn access server product that you get warnings like warning.
Openvpn your certificate is not yet valid. Do not dial an extra 1 before the 800 or your call will not be accepted as an uitf toll free call. Correct time openvpn requires client and server to have more or less synchronized time. Your connection is not private or could not verify identity of this server or such dire messages.
That certificate says its validity is not before. Umläute feb 17 14 at 16 31 the connection to the vpn server does not need to be that reliable but the system time needs to be. But in order to connect to the vpn they have to see the vpn server so you could even run an ntp server on the vpn server.
When openvpn authentication process fails during a connection attempt with an error message like certificate is not yet vaild check the date of your machine. According to a web source it is required to have synchronized time between vpn server and client. Just set the correct time and date in both your client and server systems it has nothing to do with openvpn or this script.
Chocolateshirt mentioned this issue may 3 2017 tls handshake failed angristan openvpn install 15. Tshepang feb 18 14 at 9 31. Openssl dhparam out dh1024 pem 1024 substitute 2048 for 1024 if you are using 2048 bit keys.
Aug 8 09 08 14 2011 gmt so it s not going to be valid for another 29 minutes yet and it wasn t yet valid when you wrote the question. Generate your own with. Ca ca crt cert server crt key server key this file should be kept secret diffie hellman parameters.
I m reading your question at 0939bst on 08 08 2011 which is 0839gmt 08 08 2011 and it says you wrote the question some 9 hours ago.