Additional Ports

xAlfredx

Hi,

I am accessing the airvpn servers from within a university network,

requiring me to connect via tcp over an http (over tcp) proxy.

This means my vpn connection runs on top of two tcp connections,

and is quite unstable as a result (especially under load).

I did however find out recently that a few tcp ports are accessible

without going throught the proxy. Sadly none of the ports that can

currently be used to connect to the airvpn servers are.

Therefore I'd like to request the addition of one of the following ports:

110

119

143

389

465

563

587

993

995

Regards, Alfred

zhang888

Hi,

From a technical point of view, except 119 (nntp) and 3389 (ms-rdp), all the ports in your list would have a very

bad general implications for the entire community.

All other ports are used to handle e-mail related tasks (POP,SMTP,IMAP) and opening them would flag the AirVPN

entry/exit nodes as potential spam relays. Even if there is no email service listening on those ports.

Many systems just try to connect to this port and see if it's open or not.

You should try SSH tunnel over 22. This should work the same as 119 and 3389 for this matter.

UDP on port 53 should work as well, I used it many times in restrictive environments like libraries.

The actual "opening" of OpenVPN listening ports is a very trivial task, but you have to do it in a way that will

not make other systems find out easily that the host behind it is a VPN node. Or at least try to.

xAlfredx

Hi,

I suppose not opening any of the mail ports does make sense.

I still can't connect to port 22 at all, and UDP is ruled out entirely.

What about ports 119 and 389 then?

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