Ah what an Idiot why didnt i check the logs!
Tue Nov 3 09:25:12 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:30:12 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:30:12 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:30:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:30:32 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:30:52 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:30:52 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:30:52 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:30:52 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:35:52 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:35:52 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:36:12 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:36:12 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:36:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:36:32 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:36:32 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:36:32 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:41:32 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:41:32 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:41:52 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:41:52 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:42:12 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:42:12 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:42:12 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:42:12 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:47:12 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:47:12 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:47:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:47:32 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:47:52 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:47:52 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:47:52 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:47:52 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:52:52 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:52:52 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:53:12 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:53:12 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:53:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:53:32 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:53:32 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:53:32 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 09:58:32 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 09:58:32 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 09:58:52 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:58:52 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 09:59:12 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 09:59:12 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 09:59:12 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 09:59:12 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 10:04:12 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 10:04:12 2020 Re-using pre-shared static key
Tue Nov 3 10:04:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 10:04:32 2020 Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: tunsme-sia
Tue Nov 3 10:04:52 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
Tue Nov 3 10:04:52 2020 Could not determine IPv4/IPv6 protocol
Tue Nov 3 10:04:52 2020 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Tue Nov 3 10:04:52 2020 Restart pause, 300 second(s)
Tue Nov 3 10:08:58 2020 Closing TUN/TAP interface
Tue Nov 3 10:08:58 2020 /sbin/ip addr del dev tunsme-sia local 10.3.0.2 peer 10.3.0.1
Tue Nov 3 10:08:58 2020 Linux ip addr del failed: could not execute external program
Tue Nov 3 10:08:58 2020 SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 disabling NCP mode (--ncp-disable) because not in P2MP client or server mode
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 WARNING: file 'priv/sme-sia_sharedkey.pem' is group or others accessible
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu [Fedora EPEL patched] [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Apr 24 2020
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013, LZO 2.03
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Outgoing Static Key Encryption: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 WARNING: INSECURE cipher with block size less than 128 bit (64 bit). This allows attacks like SWEET32. Mitigate by using a --cipher with a larger block size (e.g. AES-256-CBC).
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Outgoing Static Key Encryption: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Incoming Static Key Encryption: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 WARNING: INSECURE cipher with block size less than 128 bit (64 bit). This allows attacks like SWEET32. Mitigate by using a --cipher with a larger block size (e.g. AES-256-CBC).
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Incoming Static Key Encryption: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 ROUTE_GATEWAY 91.109.115.137/255.255.255.248 IFACE=eth0 HWADDR=e2:42:17:da:fb:60
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 TUN/TAP device tunsme-sia opened
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 /sbin/ip link set dev tunsme-sia up mtu 1500
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 /sbin/ip addr add dev tunsme-sia local 10.3.0.2 peer 10.3.0.1
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 bin/up tunsme-sia 1500 1545 10.3.0.2 10.3.0.1 init
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]81.143.33.105:1196
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Socket Buffers: R=[124928->124928] S=[124928->124928]
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 UDP link local: (not bound)
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]81.143.33.105:1196
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 chroot to '/etc/openvpn/s2s' and cd to '/' succeeded
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 GID set to openvpn
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 UID set to openvpn
Tue Nov 3 10:09:00 2020 Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]81.143.33.105:1196
Tue Nov 3 10:09:01 2020 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Tue Nov 3 10:09:01 2020 Initialization Sequence Completed
Tue Nov 3 10:09:03 2020 NOTE: Beginning empirical MTU test -- results should be available in 3 to 4 minutes.
Tue Nov 3 10:12:05 2020 NOTE: Empirical MTU test completed [Tried,Actual] local->remote=[1540,1540] remote->local=[1540,1540]
Anyway im assuming this is the issue
Tue Nov 3 10:04:32 2020 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: sme-big.EDITED.com:1196 (Temporary failure in name resolution)
however the name is correct. The way I resolve is to goto the server manager page and edit the connection etc and then it connects. Rebooting also reconnects.