Wouldn't something like v2ray helps?
How did you post on HN btw?
Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
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Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But sir, how will they protect the children, if the OS does that?
Good one
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#153I have the fortune to reside in Russia-controlled Donbas. Over here they have been blocking all WireGuard connections for a long time. OpenVPN seems to be blocked selectively depending on the host. The government and commerce must need it more than WireGuard. It isn't consistent. Different ISPs block different hosts and protocols at different times. I assume we are a kind of test and staging environment for censorshi…
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Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#154Russian here, living in Russia. My paid VPN provider stopped working months ago. Then my self-hosted Outline server stopped working. Then my self-hosted OpenVPN stopped working too. Both were hosten on Digital Ocean (Frankfurt). What currently works for me is self-hosted Outline running on an US server, but I suspect that won't last long. Looks like I have no choice but to learn how to self-host XRay. A smart friend…
I’ve written an Ansible playbook [1] to automate XRay installation on a Linux machine.
Some people say XRay works well, but I don’t have personal experience.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
How, technically, can they block wire guard? It can operate as pure UDP on any port. Are we referring to wireguard vendors like tailscale here?
The protocol has a defined structure (check out 5.4.6 in [1]), and can therefore be detected and blocked. It's probably easier to block than a TLS VPN, which has a lot of typical TLS noise to hide in. [1] https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
What about something like udp over tcp?
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#156I have the fortune to reside in Russia-controlled Donbas. Over here they have been blocking all WireGuard connections for a long time. OpenVPN seems to be blocked selectively depending on the host. The government and commerce must need it more than WireGuard. It isn't consistent. Different ISPs block different hosts and protocols at different times. I assume we are a kind of test and staging environment for censorshi…
You might see some confused faces. To most English speakers "fortune" mostly means good, unless it is preceded by something that specifies that it is bad fortune, like "ill fortune" or misfortune.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#157Russian here, living in Russia. My paid VPN provider stopped working months ago. Then my self-hosted Outline server stopped working. Then my self-hosted OpenVPN stopped working too. Both were hosten on Digital Ocean (Frankfurt). What currently works for me is self-hosted Outline running on an US server, but I suspect that won't last long. Looks like I have no choice but to learn how to self-host XRay. A smart friend…
Why do you host your VPN in "hostile" countries?
Wouldn't it be better to host in Asia (Viet-Nam comes to mind) or Central / South America (Nicaragua etc)? Latency might suck but it would be better than no access.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#158You can use wstunnel to bypass firewall. I had many feedbacks from chinese/turkish/iranian people using it with success.
Easy to setup also with static binaries.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#159Unfortunately, thanks to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors. Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives. I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great…
Shameless plug, there is also wstunnel (i am its author) https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel/, hope you enjoy.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#160Earlier 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.
I'm not sure a collapse of Russia would be good for GP. Living under an oppressive regime is not fun, but Putin's Russia isn't that bad as dictatorships go, and anarchy/societal collapse aren't fun either.
GP won’t suffer from anarchy or societal collapse. According to internationally recognized state borders, they live in Ukraine, not in Russia.
Russians have lost approximately half of the land they have occupied in the first 3 months of the full-scale war. We have repeatedly observed that Ukrainian government is willing and capable of bringing law and order to these liberated territories.