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This couldn't at all be related to the submission 34 days ago talking about building a VPN on Fly.io with Tailscale (or even Headscale) could it? https://news.

This couldn't at all be related to the submission 34 days ago talking about building a VPN on Fly.io with Tailscale (or even Headscale) could it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064305 My take is it's either a very quick copy, or the feds. Perhaps both.

TechBro8615 3y ago
Not everything is connected to HN's sychophantically favorite buzzwords.
- caust1c 3y ago
  Just saying it happens to have come out of nowhere and their locations are suspiciously similar to Fly's regions.
  - TechBro8615 3y ago
    You'd have to try the service and test the IP addresses to be sure, but yeah maybe it's running on Fly. Or any other cloud network(s) with servers in those locations, which could be any (or multiple) of them - it's a fairly common set of regions. The reason most cloud providers have overlapping datacenter locations is generally explainable by the fact that they all rent space in the same physical buildings (e.g. an Equinix datacenter), where they peer with each other and classify the building as an "internet exchange point" (IXP). These buildings tend to congregate near each other for historical or geographical reasons, like proximity to the landing terminal of an undersea cable, or inheriting a building from the old DARPA network. It's actually quite annoying how clouds will label their region e.g. "gcp-eu-1," but it's actually just a reference to some rack space that Google rents in the same London Equinix datacenter as AWS and Azure.
  - KomoD 3y ago
    Bingo, the website and api itself is hosted on Fly.io at least. ~ ipinfo upvpn.app - IP 213.188.207.130 - Anycast true - City Chicago - Region Illinois - Country United States (US) - Currency USD ($) - Location 41.8500,-87.6500 - Organization AS40509 Fly.io, Inc. - Postal 60666 - Timezone America/Chicago
    - caust1c 3y ago
      Even juicier: 15:21:52 $ curl https://upvpn.app/install.sh #!/bin/sh # Based on Tailscale: Copyright (c) 2021 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved. # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style # license that can be found in the LICENSE file. # # This script detects the current operating system, and installs # upvpn on supported OS. To be clear, I don't mean to disparage upvpn, in fact I'm impressed they pulled it together so quickly. Just feels crazy to read about it a month ago and see it today, you know?
      - gigapotential 3y ago
        Their installation script is open source and is acknowledged as such. upvpn is not related to them.
      - alam2000 3y ago
        [dead]
gigapotential 3y ago
None of it is related to the link above. I love Fly.io - they a building a great product. The website https://upvpn.app https://upvpn.app is hosted on Fly.io as identified in the comments below. VPN servers are not hosted on Fly.io

TechBro8615 3y ago

Not everything is connected to HN's sychophantically favorite buzzwords.

caust1c 3y ago
Just saying it happens to have come out of nowhere and their locations are suspiciously similar to Fly's regions.
- TechBro8615 3y ago
  You'd have to try the service and test the IP addresses to be sure, but yeah maybe it's running on Fly. Or any other cloud network(s) with servers in those locations, which could be any (or multiple) of them - it's a fairly common set of regions. The reason most cloud providers have overlapping datacenter locations is generally explainable by the fact that they all rent space in the same physical buildings (e.g. an Equinix datacenter), where they peer with each other and classify the building as an "internet exchange point" (IXP). These buildings tend to congregate near each other for historical or geographical reasons, like proximity to the landing terminal of an undersea cable, or inheriting a building from the old DARPA network. It's actually quite annoying how clouds will label their region e.g. "gcp-eu-1," but it's actually just a reference to some rack space that Google rents in the same London Equinix datacenter as AWS and Azure.
- KomoD 3y ago
  Bingo, the website and api itself is hosted on Fly.io at least. ~ ipinfo upvpn.app - IP 213.188.207.130 - Anycast true - City Chicago - Region Illinois - Country United States (US) - Currency USD ($) - Location 41.8500,-87.6500 - Organization AS40509 Fly.io, Inc. - Postal 60666 - Timezone America/Chicago
  - caust1c 3y ago
    Even juicier: 15:21:52 $ curl https://upvpn.app/install.sh #!/bin/sh # Based on Tailscale: Copyright (c) 2021 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved. # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style # license that can be found in the LICENSE file. # # This script detects the current operating system, and installs # upvpn on supported OS. To be clear, I don't mean to disparage upvpn, in fact I'm impressed they pulled it together so quickly. Just feels crazy to read about it a month ago and see it today, you know?
    - gigapotential 3y ago
      Their installation script is open source and is acknowledged as such. upvpn is not related to them.
    - alam2000 3y ago
      [dead]

gigapotential 3y ago

None of it is related to the link above. I love Fly.io - they a building a great product. The website https://upvpn.app https://upvpn.app is hosted on Fly.io as identified in the comments below. VPN servers are not hosted on Fly.io