Thought I would post this one quickly…

Having trouble getting OpenVPN to start/work for you and you are seeing this error in your logs?

“TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address”

The resolution is pretty simple. Try changing the port you have assigned to openVPN in your config file and restarting the service. Most likely you have bound it to a port already being used by another service. I ran into this problem because I tried to use port 443. I wasn’t running an SSL/HTTPS website on my server but what I had forgotten that I was running SSH through 443 temporarily.

It is generally good practice to use a port above 1000 for odd services if you aren’t using the default port for said service. I run into this a lot as I don’t like to use common ports as they tend to get targeted more often and hammered by bots/evil people trying to break in…

Anyhow, hope this helps!

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