Racoon not identifying host specified in config file

[Torbjørn]

Hello, everyone ..

Some quick information about the software in use:
Jul 28 15:51:42 fw0 racoon: INFO: @(#)ipsec-tools 0.7 
(http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net)
Jul 28 15:51:42 fw0 racoon: INFO: @(#)This product linked OpenSSL 
0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 (http://www.openssl.org/)

I'm having a problem with my IPSec configuration.
On one side, everything works out pretty nice.
On the other side, racoon is making bad noises about not finding a 
correct configuration.

"ERROR: couldn't find configuration."

However, if I kill racoon, and run it in the foreground with debug 
output on, I get some more information.

2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: ===
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: 100 bytes message received from 
81.167.211.58[57413] to 85.200.211.69[500]
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG:
ba9d946f 3cf4cf90 00000000 00000000 01100200 00000000 00000064 0d000034
00000001 00000001 00000028 01010001 00000020 01010000 800b0001 800c04b0
80010005 80030001 80020002 80040002 00000014 afcad713 68a1f1c9 6b8696fc
77570100
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: no remote configuration found.
2008-07-16 16:06:27: ERROR: couldn't find configuration.

The configuration is pretty straight forward.

# cat racoon.conf
path pre_shared_key "/var/etc/psk.txt";

path certificate  "/var/etc";

remote 81.167.211.58 {
         exchange_mode main;
         my_identifier address "85.200.211.69";

         peers_identifier address 81.167.211.58;
         initial_contact on;
         support_proxy on;
         proposal_check obey;

         proposal {
                 encryption_algorithm 3des;
                 hash_algorithm sha1;
                 authentication_method pre_shared_key;
                 dh_group 2;
                 lifetime time 2400 secs;
         }
         lifetime time 2400 secs;
}

sainfo address 85.200.211.64/29 any address 192.168.100.0/24 any {
         encryption_algorithm 3des,blowfish,cast128,rijndael,rijndael 256;
         authentication_algorithm hmac_sha1,hmac_md5;
         compression_algorithm deflate;
         lifetime time 1200 secs;
}

Here is the weird thing; if I change that remote stanza to read

remote anonymous {
     blah;
}

then everything works out nice, racoon even tells me it uses the 
anonymous stanza for that correct IP.

2008-07-16 16:11:06: DEBUG: anonymous configuration selected for 
81.167.211.58.

So, to me this seems really odd, how come racoon isn't picking up that 
stanza when configured for that specified IP ?
Using the remote stanza is not what I really want ..

So, does anyone have any ideas on what is going on here ?
Using tcpdump I can see that it is in fact 81.167.211.58 that is coming 
through to racoon, on port 500/UDP.

Thanks for a great product, by the way.

-- Torbjørn / Nextline