I wish to just use OpenVPN but it's not so easy. Certificates - no problem. Forward DNS requests - there is an option for it in the config file. Routing entire traffic through OpenVPN - quite tricky unless you're fluent in command line network management tools and computer networks in general.
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#13I use it 100% of the time on my phone and on my laptop unless I'm at work (internal resources that I haven't figured out how to play nice with yet).
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#14I wish to just use OpenVPN but it's not so easy. Certificates - no problem. Forward DNS requests - there is an option for it in the config file. Routing entire traffic through OpenVPN - quite tricky unless you're fluent in command line network management tools and computer networks in general.
Instead of using the push setting in the server config you can also set redirect-gateway in the client config.
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#16It was also unclear to me how the browser extension could be used to share user's traffic; it didn't seem like the extension did that, but I didn't read the source code too carefully.
Does anyone has a copy of these extensions?
I am disappointed the Windows and Android apps were vulnerable and that Hola didn't market their software better. It's probably the coolest app since Napster. Yes, it's a botnet of sorts, but the Internet needs a way to let users disassociate themselves from IP addresses. And most proxy services are easily identified.
[1] http://www.csoonline.com/article/2928817/vulnerabilities/hol...
[2] http://blog.vectranetworks.com/blog/technical-analysis-of-ho...
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#17Still, creating a new user profile just for watching netflix is recommended.
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#18I have zero connection to this company but if you are looking for a reliable, fast, unlimited VPN I would check out Private Internet Access ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ ) I've got a number of friends who use this and I've been using it for a little over a month and have nothing but good things to say. At $40/yr it's well worth it IMHO and provides a native VPN client, PPTP, and Socks5 (They have mobile ap…
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#19I wish to just use OpenVPN but it's not so easy. Certificates - no problem. Forward DNS requests - there is an option for it in the config file. Routing entire traffic through OpenVPN - quite tricky unless you're fluent in command line network management tools and computer networks in general.
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#20I wish to just use OpenVPN but it's not so easy. Certificates - no problem. Forward DNS requests - there is an option for it in the config file. Routing entire traffic through OpenVPN - quite tricky unless you're fluent in command line network management tools and computer networks in general.
No need to configure anything at remote host, no excessive amount of options. Capable of DNS forwarding, routing of entire traffic or just traffic to chosen remote hosts.