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This has been going on for some time now, I'm surprised it is being reported again now. Rule of thumb.. if someone can work out what you are doing by launching
by mcbridematt 12y ago
This has been going on for some time now, I'm surprised it is being reported again now.
Rule of thumb.. if someone can work out what you are doing by launching Wireshark, so can a nation-scale IPS system a la Great Wall
- olalonde 12y agoThat's true but just to be clear, they are not blocking VPNs at protocol level but "manually" blocking the IPs of specific providers. They do the same with Tor: block all public Tor relay IPs.
- mcbridematt 12y agoMy own VPN instances have been shot down within a couple of days of use, definitely IPS-style behavior. I can't comment on commercial providers, but the capability to autoblock common VPN protocols is definitely there.
- olalonde 12y agoInteresting, I didn't know they did that. I've been running my own VPN as well for a couple of years without problem. Is it possible you were running Tor on your server or something else got you blocked (some AWS IPs seem to get blocked for no apparent reason)?
- mcbridematt 12y agoNo, just OpenVPN, and from the searching I did at the time, this is a well known problem. These days I just tunnel over SSH or even remote desktop into a remote server.
- majke 12y agoMore than that. They look for outgoing connections that look like Tor, and then, few minutes later they actively scan it: https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-11-fun-with-the-great-firewall/ https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-11-fun-with-the-great-fire...