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Checking host firewall: OK but Client complains about ports

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Hi,

I installed Outline Server on my VPS about a month ago and I fired up the manager, created a few keys, and shared them. Everything went well and was great.

A few days ago I opened the manager again, and to my surprise it wouldn’t connect to the server. I tried re-installing the server and trying with a new apiUrl and certSha256, but I keep getting

Your Outline Server was installed correctly, but we are not able to connect to it. Most likely this is because your server’s firewall rules are blocking incoming connections. Please review them and make sure to allow incoming TCP connections on ports ranging from 1024 to 65535.

Meanwhile, re-instaling the server passes the Checking host firewall, and it might help to note that my previously shared keys still work well, it’s just I can’t connect the manager to add new keys.

Manager version: 1.1.4 Installed using this script:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server/master/src/server_manager/install_scripts/install_server.sh

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:15 (2 by maintainers)

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7urkm3ncommented, Feb 13, 2019

if anyone has the firewall issue, just flush the rules sudo iptables -F and try again. Make sure docker restart or better server restart sudo reboot. In my case reinstalled the outline-server, deleting docker stop $(docker ps -aq) and docker rm $(docker ps -aq) and docker rmi $(docker images -q).

Flush rules sudo iptables -F List rules sudo iptables -L

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sriram89194commented, May 13, 2020

Hi,

I installed Outline Server on my VPS about a month ago and I fired up the manager, created a few keys, and shared them. Everything went well and was great.

A few days ago I opened the manager again, and to my surprise it wouldn’t connect to the server. I tried re-installing the server and trying with a new apiUrl and certSha256, but I keep getting

Your Outline Server was installed correctly, but we are not able to connect to it. Most likely this is because your server’s firewall rules are blocking incoming connections. Please review them and make sure to allow incoming TCP connections on ports ranging from 1024 to 65535.

Meanwhile, re-instaling the server passes the Checking host firewall, and it might help to note that my previously shared keys still work well, it’s just I can’t connect the manager to add new keys.

Manager version: 1.1.4 Installed using this script:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server/master/src/server_manager/install_scripts/install_server.sh

Your Outline Server was installed correctly, but we are not able to connect to it. Most likely this is because your server’s firewall rules are blocking incoming connections. Please review them and make sure to allow incoming TCP connections on ports ranging from 1024 to 65535. ----->I’m facing this issue that what I mentioned above. While I’m trying to setup the server using outline manager from the goole cloud platform. Screenshot (63) ----->So, please help me with this issue.And let me know what to do. Thank You.

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