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I'm attempting to set up remote access to my LAN, so on my tplink router I've set up OpenVPN as per this guide. I also registered for tplink's DDNS service thingy and it gave me a name.tplinkdns.com domain.

To test if this works, I hook up my laptop to a tethered wifi connection from my phone (i.e. not on my local network). Running OpenVPN on it (Win10, v2.5.7), it is stuck in 'connecting' state with TLS handshake failing every 1 minute. Here's some logs:

Wed Jun 29 20:11:38 2022 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]xx.yy.zz.nn:1194
Wed Jun 29 20:11:38 2022 UDP link local: (not bound)
Wed Jun 29 20:11:38 2022 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]xx.yy.zz.nn:1194
Wed Jun 29 20:12:38 2022 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Wed Jun 29 20:12:38 2022 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed

I've tried both UDP (as above) and TCP (it gives an 'unknown error' after 60 seconds). I've modified the config file to point directly at the name.tplinkdns.com domain I have, but that didn't work either (previously it was pointing at a 10.x.x.x domain, not sure if that matters).

What else can I try?

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Turns out the answer for this particular issue was opening the 1194 port on my ISP's router/modem, and that fixed it.

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