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I set up an OpenVPN server on DigitalOcean from scratch and it wasn't nearly as easy to use as I expected. Connecting from ubuntu meant connections would random
by 3pt14159 9y ago
I set up an OpenVPN server on DigitalOcean from scratch and it wasn't nearly as easy to use as I expected. Connecting from ubuntu meant connections would randomly hang and I'd have to restart the client and iPhone didn't work out without some third party app. Honestly if I weren't in Ukraine I would have given up completely, but paranoia is justified in Kiev.
- throwanem 9y agoThird-party app? OpenVPN Connect is first-party, and I've been using it for years now with no trouble.
- 3pt14159 9y agoThird-party as in non-Apple. It's taking over my networking so I'd prefer it was baked right into the operating system.
- dspillett 9y agoI have no experience with iDevices, but when I did use OpenVPN on Android I found it to be reliable. If you find 3rd party apps unrelibale, perhaps you could try setting up a server that uses one of the protocols that are officially supported out-of-the-box (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201533 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201533) and see if they are less troublesome?
- thesmok 9y agoUse IKEv2 instead -- it's natively supported in iOS/macOS. I'm using [this](https://github.com/gaomd/docker-ikev2-vpn-server https://github.com/gaomd/docker-ikev2-vpn-server) Docker recipe on the $5 Digital Ocean instance and it works great. Also setup was much easier than OpenVPN.