Proxy as Public Exit IP

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Hello,

 

since some webservices like GMX tend to block AIRVPN servers i want to use my SOCKS5 Proxy as the public exit ip.

 

How can i archieve that? I already tried to add the proxy in the airvpn settings, but the public ip still remains.

 

 

 

[mage1982 15]

Let's go through the basics first (apologies if this is too basic).

 

When you use AirVPN, Internet traffic is sent from the AirVPN client encrypted to one of Air's servers, and then from that server to the rest of the world. Everything you do will appear to come from that server (instead of from you), which is normally what one would want when using a VPN service.

 

You can add in a SOCKS proxy server in the loop before AirVPN, that is, the VPN client will use the SOCKS proxy; in that case, traffic will go from the AirVPN client, through the SOCKS proxy, to one of Air's servers, and then to the world. To any website, what you do will still look as though it originates from Air's server; the only thing that is even aware that a SOCKS proxy exists are you and the VPN client.

 

For a site to see your proxy server as the source of traffic, it will have to come after AirVPN. The traffic would go encrypted to one of Air's servers, then back to you/it - possibly unencrypted - through the SOCKS proxy, and then out to the rest of the world. In this case, using AirVPN doesn't really add much in terms of privacy since it neither obscures the origin of traffic, nor necessarily guarantees that traffic will be encrypted.

 

Of course, this could still be useful if the SOCKS proxy is on separate hardware from what you use AirVPN on, for instance if the proxy is on a server under your control and you use Air on your laptop when travelling. If you want to use Air in this way, you need to tell your web browser about the SOCKS proxy, not the VPN client.

 

 

There might be other things possible too, like having both on the same machine and using the VPN for most things, but having the SOCKS proxy bypass AirVPN entirely so one could use that for particular websites that otherwise would block you, but that's another post.

 

Does that clear things up or make it more confusing?