Itsdaspecialk/pia-openvpn will not connect to pia

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I’m not sure how to contact the author, but I’m trying to use the container specified and it will not connect.

Mon Jan 24 20:46:39 2022 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: us-east.privateinternetaccess.com: Try again

The container is created/started with the following:
docker run -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN
–name=pia
–restart=always
-e TZ=America/Chicago
–dns 209.222.18.222 --dns 209.222.18.218
-e ‘USERNAME=USERNAMEHERE’
-e ‘PASSWORD=PASSWORD’
itsdaspecialk/pia-openvpn

Anyone know why the container can’t do dns to even connect?

2

Probably because the nameservers you specified for the container are not available where you run the container.

3

Okay so I add --dns 8.8.8.8 to it. The container comes up, but it never logs in to pia or starts a tun device.

Is the container broken? I started it using the instructions from:

I just changed the username/passowrd/REGION to match where I would be connecting from.

I nosed around inside the container with “sh”, and there’s an openvpn init.d script. But it wants to be ran with an /sbin/openrc-run at the top of the script, but that file doesn’t exist inside the container.

5

Hmm… seems I’m getting something different now.
Mon Jan 31 23:08:15 2022 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting
Mon Jan 31 23:08:17 2022 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Mon Jan 31 23:08:17 2022 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]104.16.41.63:1194
Mon Jan 31 23:09:17 2022 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Mon Jan 31 23:09:17 2022 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Mon Jan 31 23:09:17 2022 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting
Mon Jan 31 23:09:19 2022 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Mon Jan 31 23:09:19 2022 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]104.16.41.63:1194

This just cycles constantly.