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Bypass blocked VPN restrictions (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I have recently been finding myself on a network (cellular) that blocks access to VPN. I have tried Wireguard on multiple ports using IVPN and Windscribe with no luck. Similarly tried OpenVPN and IKEv2.

I also tried using Windscribe’s “stealth” protocol and IVPN’s obfuscation protocol but again with no luck.

I refuse to rawdog the internet like that and was hoping to get advice on how to work around that nonsense.

I am on iOS if that matters.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

You could potentially get your own VPS server and set that up as a VPN server that way you're not connecting to a known VPN.

Edit: You might also try using Tor.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have a Wireguard tunnel running on my home server back home in the US. I am currently outside of the US and that Wireguard tunnel won’t connect if I am on cellular connection for this one specific provider that I am using atm.

    I have never attempted to use Tor as a VPN on my iOS device, how is the performance in terms of making Signal calls for example?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, I see. I don't think you can make calls over tor because I think it's TCP only. Not UDP.

    Could it be an IP addressing problem by chance where the telecom provider doesn't support say IPv6 while your home network is IPv6? If so, they may not be blocking it, so much as it's not possible to make the connection to begin with.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    My home server VPN is IPv4. The VPN provider I have uses both IPv4/6. Neither of those work.

    At this point I am inclined to believe the network carrier is performing DPI as I also can’t use OpenVPN on TCP 80 and TCP 443, which are generally hard to block unless provider is intentionally looking into it…at least that’s my understanding.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    That very well could be, as I mentioned earlier, you might get yourself a VPS and set up an SSH tunnel or something like that, but otherwise I have no idea.

    I do know that you can use signal over tor because I do so, but I only use it for the sending messages and voice messages part. As I said, I think the audio call uses UDP and tor is TCP only to the best of my knowledge.

    The only other thing I could think of would be to try a mix net such as Nym.

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