Oopsie: all ports filtered?

Hi everyone, I hope this isn’t as dumb of a question as it might be…

I’m trying my hand at the Oopsie machine, and after failing even the most basic curl, I decided to look at the walkthrough.
To my surprise, port 80 is meant to be open.

So I did what the walkthrough said and used nmap to scan for open ports, and this is what it returned to me:

$sudo nmap -sS -Pn 10.10.10.28
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-02-18 13:42 UTC
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.28
Host is up (3.0s latency).
All 1000 scanned ports on 10.10.10.28 are filtered

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 78.90 seconds

But even with the knowledge that port 80 should be open, I can’t connect to it at all. Using curl returns the error curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.10.10.28 port 80: No route to host, and trying to connect through Firefox gives me the generic “unable to connect” message.

I’m starting to think there’s something wrong with the machine, because a simple ping 10.10.10.28 command returned this: From 10.10.14.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable.

Okay it was dumb.

Turns out I was connected via the wrong VPN file.
I had not actually read the instructions and just took the first download for a .ovpn file I saw.

After downloading and connecting the starting_point_<username>.ovpn file it works just fine.

i am pretty sure i have the right .ovpn file
but i still get this
root@kali:~# ping -c 1 10.10.10.226
PING 10.10.10.226 (10.10.10.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.10.14.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

— 10.10.10.226 ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Prolly too stupid for hacking. what am i doing wrong? thanks

@S4V4NT said:

i am pretty sure i have the right .ovpn file
but i still get this
root@kali:~# ping -c 1 10.10.10.226
PING 10.10.10.226 (10.10.10.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.10.14.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

— 10.10.10.226 ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Prolly too stupid for hacking. what am i doing wrong? thanks

Well, as you can see, a lot of people ask similar questions - so some of those solutions might help you.

First - are you a VIP or VIP+ user? If so, you need to activate the server and have it spawned into your account.

Secondly, try using traceroute / tracert - all ping does is say if the packets can get to something that will reply. At least with traceroute you can see where the failure takes place