Try Amnezia VPN. Pick a not so well known cloud provider, maybe something from the ‘Tor friendly’ list. Set it up to use the Cloak protocol.
Should be good enough for many of these Russian fascists blocking protocols (I’m assuming you’re coming from there?).
Another option is Outline.
remote desktop into a server somewhere that isn’t crazy?
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They are not blocked but they are very slow for some reason, tried changing routes many times but I think they’re doing something with it.
It’s not North Korea, it’s a country with an internet access, no it’s not China but it has a DPI system as bad as china if not worse. I tried WireGuard but it’s detected and blocked, normal WireGuard is easy to detect, even WireShark does it.
How does amenzia differ from say wireguard?
Blocked on certain ISPs.
We are on r/selfhosted, right?
Once the VPN is detected, the packets are getting dropped and never reaching the server, I don’t really care about MITM attacks, I just wanna bypass the restrictions.
This is not necessarily true any more. The Great Firewall has quite advanced heuristics these days. While it is true that the GF will only see encrypted traffic, and not the data inside- it turns out encrypted traffic is not the same as encrypted traffic and they are relatively reliable at knocking down what they don’t want to be traversing the GF. CF the recent 2023 usenix paper on it.
How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic
Unfortunately it’s blocked, shadowsocks is also detected somehow. The only option is v2ray now which I don’t like, I was wondering if someone else here has a better alternative.
I don’t think so, I don’t want third party VPN/proxy, I want to self host the server myself.
Deep packet inspection it is used to block access to certain websites, services etc
Can you elaborate further? I can’t find much useful info from google.
Facebook and WhatsApp are both blocked, tunneling over DNS would work but we have this thing called the SNI in HTTPS which ruins everything… Which ultimately also makes DNS/EDNS not work. As I said, the DPI is very aggressive.
Intercepted regularly (Even the SSH itself is intercepted and disconnected regularly)
Ok, depending on my traveling experiences in “problematic” countries, (like Kazakhstan or Egypt) the entire backbone felt dodgy and slow, maybe related, maybe unrelated to censorship mechanisms, independently of accessing approved or disapproved sites. For the blocked ones, TOR did get you there though. Although pretty restrictive the great firewall of China did not affect speeds that much. But probably they do have better overall connectivity in the first place.
I don’t see how a VPN gets you around the bad backbone there to get better speeds. After all it will run through the censorships mechanisms, only undetected. I think if doing censorship via QOS to slow down access to “unwanted” services would be too much work even for an authoritarian government.
The Tor network is essentially a bunch of volunteers letting you use some their bandwidth - so until the baseline bandwidth of the internet increases significantly, tor will be “slow”.
Also try the PresharedKey option in the WG config.
I’ve been running a couple Outline servers for my friends, so far no issues except false positives.
Amnezia is not protocol, if we talk about wireguard. It is soft which help to make different protocols on your own vps including wireguard