OpenVPN shows many clients connected that are not me

[sfatula]

I see lots of connection attempts from various IP addresses out there, see the attached VPN status screen excerpt. The log shows them timing out for TLS handshake failing. I presume they leave these connections open for a while? Is there any setting that might allow me to avoid this?

Also, can the log be suppressed for these sorts of messages, they happen constantly.

 

[JDB]

Use an unusual port rather than the default


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[sfatula]

How can I configure OpenVPN to reject these quicker and definitely reduce the log messages, I hate those messages cluttering up the system log. Moving ports works temporarily, a simple port scan finds it.

 

[RMerlin]

Moving ports works temporarily, a simple port scan finds it.

Malwares tend to only scan known ports, for efficiency reasons. Just changing to a non standard port will drop 99% of these attempts.

 

[sfatula]

Malwares tend to only scan known ports, for efficiency reasons. Just changing to a non standard port will drop 99% of these attempts.

Is there a way to reduce the logging, or eliminate it for the openvpn messages?

 

[RMerlin]

Is there a way to reduce the logging, or eliminate it for the openvpn messages?

Maybe by setting the OpenVPN logging to its minimum, but I don't know if it will exclude failed connections.

 

[DonnyJohnny]

nice.. please remove all log. Hope hackers will creep into your router.
People already tried recommending you better way but you choose the unconventional way.