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Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by orbital-decay »

ir77 wrote: post #31

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The people you're referring to also thought they live in a vacuum. Save your comment and revisit it in 10 years. I don't know if that war taught you anything, but you either care about the government of a large country isolating its populace today, or you're inevitably going to care about it tomorrow. Yes, indirectly it's your business as well.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

srackey wrote: post #65
libertine wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stay strong, hopefully, Russia will collapse and you'll be free - I may be naive but I still think there are enough Russians who can see this tragedy as the doing of a man who wants to continue to live the life of a king, and it's probably his only way of survival after so many murdering and prosecution.

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They're all spoonfed a propaganda stream that makes the czar look like a nice guy trying his best to protect the motherland.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by pohl »

srackey wrote: post #65
libertine wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stay strong, hopefully, Russia will collapse and you'll be free - I may be naive but I still think there are enough Russians who can see this tragedy as the doing of a man who wants to continue to live the life of a king, and it's probably his only way of survival after so many murdering and prosecution.

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That's kind of what being bathed in a constant firehose of disinformation does to public opinion, though, right? Most of those people aren't even living on earth one.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Covzire wrote: post #25
dr_pardee wrote: post #12

Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...

It should be an OS-level implemented feature at the TCP/IP layer so all non-local traffic is unrecognizable to anyone but the true recipient. IDS/IPS's are virtually worthless these days anyway so I can't see much downside if every Window's, Mac's and Linux OS's network traffic appeared to be completely random/obfuscated out-of-box.

I've heard it claimed that IPv6 was supposed to bake in IPsec as part of the core protocol which I think would have given you what you want, but 1. obviously that's not how history actually turned out, and 2. honestly I'm kind of glad that it didn't because I would rather not be stuck with IPsec forever.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by ordu »

pinochet2021 wrote: post #13

Try SquareX's disposable browser - works for me in China and is basically Remote Browser Isolation but for consumers. It seems free right now - https://www.sqrx.com

Thanks. For now my VPN is still working, and Tor as well. But it is nice to have one more alternative.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by Agoreddah »

srackey wrote: post #65
libertine wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stay strong, hopefully, Russia will collapse and you'll be free - I may be naive but I still think there are enough Russians who can see this tragedy as the doing of a man who wants to continue to live the life of a king, and it's probably his only way of survival after so many murdering and prosecution.

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There were many dictators with high popularity rates. Remember Romanian leader Ceaușescu? Yet, popularity didn't save him. On the other hand, there're still people in Romania who consider him the greatest president of all time :)

It's very common and normal, to have a small popularity numbers for the politicians in the democracy. People have a variety of opinions, moods, or sympathies because they are diverse and have different levels of experiences, moods, and feelings.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by nylonstrung »

quickslowdown wrote: post #69
circularfoyers wrote: post #33

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Outline ( https://getoutline.org ) is even easier to deploy than Streisand in my experience and uses Shadowsocks.

This is really cool, thanks for sharing! I've been using Tail scale for a while, mostly because it's simple, but I don't love relying on some company for my VPN. Is this more like OpenVPN or Wireguard? Reading their site, it seems like it's closer to a traditional, OpenVPN-like connection, but I'm still interested in this over something like Nebula.

You could also use headscale to self host a tailscale control server

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Post by latchkey »

quickslowdown wrote: post #69
circularfoyers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outline ( https://getoutline.org ) is even easier to deploy than Streisand in my experience and uses Shadowsocks.

This is really cool, thanks for sharing! I've been using Tail scale for a while, mostly because it's simple, but I don't love relying on some company for my VPN. Is this more like OpenVPN or Wireguard? Reading their site, it seems like it's closer to a traditional, OpenVPN-like connection, but I'm still interested in this over something like Nebula.

Headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
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