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Tunnelblick 3.2.3

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Angelo Laub

Tunnelblick, formerly known as OpenVPN-GUI, is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 or later. It is written in Cocoa and comes in a ready to use distribution with all necessary binaries and drivers. Versions of OpenVPN older than 2.0 are not supported, because they lack the management interface used by Tunnelblick. Please send feedback and suggestions to info@tunnelblick.net.

What's New

Version 3.2.3:

Fixes a security vulnerability in OpenSSL by updating to OpenSSL version 1.0.0g. See http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120118.txt for details.
Fixes a bug that sometimes caused repeated restarts of a connection when the search domain changed after the connection was established.
"Deployed" versions that update from the Tunnelblick website always update to unsigned versions to avoid problems with the OS X Keychain.
Fixes some French localization.
At launch, if Tunnelblick is updating from the official Tunnelblick site and has an invalid digital signature (for example, the program is a Deployed version or has been modified in some other way by the user), an update to an unsigned version of Tunnelblick will be offered immediately -- even if the user has turned off automatic updates -- unless the "updateCheckAutomatically" preference is being forced to false or the user is not an administrator and the "onlyAdminCanUpdate' preference is false or not present.

Version 3.2.3:

Fixes a security vulnerability in OpenSSL by updating to OpenSSL version 1.0.0g. See http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120118.txt for details.
Fixes a bug that sometimes caused repeated restarts of a connection when the search domain changed after the connection was established.
"Deployed" versions that update from the Tunnelblick website always update to unsigned versions more...

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Tunnelblick User Discussion (Write a Review)

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Zarathoustra reviewed on 12 May 2011

Excellent app, works better for me than Viscosity ! And it's open-source !

[Version 3.1.7]

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+369

Fishscale replied on 28 Jun 2011

What elements work better than viscosity in your opinion?

Zarathoustra replied on 29 Jun 2011

Viscosity disconnects very often on my Mac. I don't know why. I thought it was a problem with my VPN provider, but when I tried Tunnelblick, it worked perfectly.

+369

Fishscale replied on 05 Jul 2011

Hmm... The "Details" window should show you what is going on with your vpn connection at all times. If it stops, the reason is probably stated in the details log which you can see in real time through viscosity. Because viscosity is not crashing I doubt the answer would be found in logs... I would check through viscosity and see what it is disconnecting and then contact the developers if you still can't figure it out. You don't give too many details to work with, anyways, if tunnelblick does it for you then good. However, I still find viscosity to be much more intuitive, powerful, and stable.

+17

Mu Frequenter reviewed on 03 Apr 2011

This is good software and a generally solid choice. Viscosity is a cut above, however, and worth it for me. More reliable connects, holds the connection where tunnelblick disconnects, and is easier to use for those not tech savvy.

[Version 3.1.7]

techgaze reviewed on 24 Jan 2011

I have evaluated Viscosity for 30 days and after the trial has expired I decided to give tunnelblick a shot, however, I think I'm going to pay for Viscosity for the following reasons.

Keep in mind that I'm using a MBP i7 with a fresh install.

1. I had multiple disconnects for no reason what so ever, something I never experienced with Viscosity.
2. Every time I get disconnected I have to quit and restart tunnelblick for it to work again.
3. For some odd reason, every now and then, it leaves an openvpn process running in the background and tunnelblick gives me a message that it cannot recognize an openvpn process that is running and unless I terminate the process manually I cannot access the vpn server although tunnelblick shows that I'm connected.

It is good for what it is but for mission critical vpn access you should really consider something else.

[Version 3.1.2]

Cheesecake reviewed on 02 Nov 2009

I've been using this excellent software for a while to connect to office server running openvpn on windows server 2003 without any problems.

If using an opensource solution, I prefer to use freewares on both client and server ends. Other clients on osx are good as well, but I don't think it's a good idea to charge customers for enhanced features of a free solution.

[Version 3.0b20]

1 Reply

+51

Neutralzone replied on 06 Dec 2010

Cheesecake - "I don't think it's a good idea to charge customers for enhanced features of a free solution."

Careful...Mac OS X has enhanced features of a free solution, FreeBSD and other free open source components. I hope you think it's OK to pay for it! :)

PlanBForOpenOffice commented on 27 May 2009

As of version 3.0b10 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 all works well.

I run Tunnelblick very stable.

So the comments below of it crashing or not working are obsolete.

A big Thank you for a great free tool.

[Version 3.0b10]

1 Reply

+51

neutralzone replied on 06 Aug 2009

No, the comments below were fair. After Viscosity changed from free to paid software, I actually returned to Tunnelblick for a while, used it for a few more months with an open mind, but yet again it let me down, while Viscosity fixed problems faster. And Viscosity is easily AppleScriptable, which was important to me. So I ended up actually paying for Viscosity and am happy with that. I have respect for the Tunnelblick project, but for my needs, paying for Viscosity was worth it. It is not the only instance in my life where paid software turned out to be worth it over free software in terms of the real costs and benefits.

This post is not about pushing Viscosity, but about saying that the reservations expressed about Tunnelblick by multiple users are VALID.

+52

Pirx reviewed on 28 Jul 2008

Works flawlessly and reliably for me for more than a year, using Witopia VPN. Brilliant app, good work.

Upgrade Maniacs on Leopard may have lots of issues with many other softwares as well, so it is not fair hammer each one developer for compatibility issues.

[Version 3.0b9]

+51

neutralzone commented on 24 Jul 2008

A day too late. I put up with Tunnelblick for months and just yesterday I switched to the new Viscosity, and I am amazed how much nicer and more stable it is.

[Version 3.0b9]

otto_m commented on 04 Jul 2008

The developer seems to have given up more than half a year ago. There is an alternative that works fine in Leopard: Viscosity 0.4

Viscosity imports Tunnelblick configurations and has been running without problems for almost a week now.

[Version 3.0b6]

+68

Buzzard reviewed on 26 Jun 2008

As with others, I am experiencing constant unexpected quits of Tunnelblick. So much so that the application is extremely frustrating to use. Unfortunately, I am using Witopia, and Witopia packages their paid VPN service with Tunnelblick. Accordingly, I have no other choice than to endure the constant instability of Tunnelblick.

I am using OSX 10.5.3

[Version 3.0b6]

1 Reply

+28

Goofball commented on 16 Jul 2008

Buzzard, there are some alternative options that you could try. For one, WiTopia now offer a free PPTP connection with every personlVPN subscription (http://witopia.net/pptpmore.html). PPTP works fine with OS X's built-in VPN-connector.

Additionally, you could try Shimo (shareware, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22929/shimo) which has proven to be an excellent VPN client and works great with OpenVPN (same VPN-technology used by Tunnelblick) as well as PPTP. Simply import your WiTopia profile (located at ~/Library/openvpn/openvpn.conf) and Shimo will automatically add the necessary keys and certificates (provided you have already installed WiTopia's Tunnelblick package).

There also is another OpenVPN client for Mac called Viscosity (freeware, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27875/viscosity). But I haven't tried this one yet since I use Shimo. Therefore, I can't tell you whether it works well with WiTopia. Since it's free you might want to try it first though. Judging from it's MacUpdate comments it also does a fine job of importing Tunnelblick profiles.

BTW, I'm not associated with any of these products, just a satisfied customer of both WiTopia and Shimo.

-14

christoph3 commented on 29 Oct 2007

Set nameserver is broken with 10.5.

[Version 3.0b5]

+141

Virgeist had trouble on 05 Jul 2011

Urgent help needed please. I live in a country where the internet is partially restricted, so a patchy connection can cause me some VERY unpleasant problems.

I use tunnelblick with a paid VPN service and so far it has worked perfectly but the other day I noticed that my ip was exposed at some point because the connection dropped! How can I prevent the connection from dropping? Alternatively how can I make certain apps like Transmission, Sparrow or Chrome forcequit or refuse to work if I am not connected?

[Version 3.2beta22]

-1

xAD had trouble on 02 Mar 2008

hang on leopard, please fix it!

[Version 3.0b6]

-1

-14

christoph3 had trouble on 09 Feb 2008

Same here. Tunnelblick dies and creates hung ovpn processes.

[Version 3.0b6]

+62

psychos had trouble on 12 Nov 2007

Tunnelblick unexpectedly quits for me sometimes. This seems to happen when changing network connections, but not always. (I'm semi-frequently switching between my Airport and an EV-DO card.) When it happens, it leaves behind a stray openvpn process that I have to manually kill before I can establish another VPN connection. Tunnelblick will actually establish a new connection successfully, but it will be unusable unless I've killed the old openvpn process first.

I'm running 10.5 on a MBP, clean install. Worked fine under 10.4.

Anyone else experiencing this under 10.5?

[Version 3.0b6]

-1

+14

Zeitkind had trouble on 28 Oct 2007

The new version (3.0b5) has a bad bug - it's NOT universal. The main binary is intel only (OpenVPN 2.0.9 i386-apple-darwin8.10.1), so it won't run on PPC machines. I was able to "fix" it by using the macports binary. Hope they will fix that soon.

[Version 3.0b5]

jono had trouble on 21 May 2007

Version 3.0b4 causes all kinds of trouble when an OpenVPN session is connected and then the Internet connection is unexpectedly broken (for example, unplugging an Ethernet cable to closing the lid). Almost every time, it removes my user name from the password file and I am forced to reboot.

[Version 3.0b4]