ANSWERED AirVPN Suite --air-country option no longer working with GB

[BigX 1]

Hello

Edit: Just noticed I posted in the wrong area. Should have been the trouble shooting one.

I normally connect to a specific server, but if the site has blocked the IP, I'll connect to a "country" instead. It's no longer working for the United Kingdom (gb), but does work for other counties like the Netherlands or Canada.

This works

goldcrest --air-connect --air-country nl

This fails

goldcrest --air-connect --air-country gb

I was running v1.3 and upgraded to v2 but it still fails, though the error message I think is different. I didn't save the complete out from v1.3. There may have been other errors but I only noted the fatal error line on the console,

tun_prop_error: tun_builder_add_address IPv6 failed

With v2 all I get is

ERROR: Country gb does not exist

Output from country list

2025-07-30 15:30:17 ** AirVPN Country List (1) **
2025-07-30 15:30:17 ISO Code Name                           Servers Users Bandwidth    Max BW    Load
2025-07-30 15:30:17 -------- ------------------------------ ------- ----- ------------ ---------- ----
2025-07-30 15:30:17 GB       United Kingdom                      15  1416 13.69 Gbit/s 30.00 Gbit/s  45%

I've no idea what's going wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
  Edited ... by BigX

[Staff 10232]

@BigX

Hello!

At a first sight this problem seemed not reproducible but we found that there's a non-printable character after gb in your command, at least in the command you published (hopefully it is a faithful copy & paste from your terminal/console), so Bluetit looks for gb<feff> which doesn't exist and prints out the error message, where you can't see the non-printable character after gb. Try to enter a "clean" command and check whether the problem gets resolved.  Can you also tell us which char encoding you use in your terminal?

If the problem persists, can you please try also:

goldcrest --air-connect --air-country "United Kingdom"

Kind regards
 

[BigX 1]

Thanks for getting back to me. I both copying and pasting you suggested command and manually typing it out but got the same error.

ERROR: Country united kingdom does not exist

Strange. This is the output if it helps

Goldcrest - AirVPN Bluetit Client 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025

2025-07-30 17:21:15 Reading run control directives from file /home/jas/.config/goldcrest.rc
AirVPN Username: bigx
Password: 
2025-07-30 17:21:23 Bluetit - AirVPN WireGuard/OpenVPN3 Service 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025
2025-07-30 17:21:23 OpenVPN core 3.12 AirVPN (20250606) linux x86_64 64-bit
2025-07-30 17:21:23 Copyright (C) 2012- OpenVPN Inc. All rights reserved.
2025-07-30 17:21:23 OpenSSL 3.5.1 1 Jul 2025
2025-07-30 17:21:23 AirVPN WireGuard Client 2.0.0 Linux x86_64 64-bit
2025-07-30 17:21:23 Bluetit options successfully reset
2025-07-30 17:21:23 Bluetit successfully set to command line options
2025-07-30 17:21:23 Requesting AirVPN connection to Bluetit
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Network filter and lock are using nftables
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Kernel module nf_tables is already loaded
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Network filter successfully initialized
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Private network is allowed to pass the network filter
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Ping output is allowed to pass the network filter
2025-07-30 17:21:24 IPv6 NDP is allowed to pass the network filter
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Session network filter and lock successfully enabled. Private network is allowed.
2025-07-30 17:21:24 AirVPN bootstrap servers are now allowed to pass through the network filter
2025-07-30 17:21:24 Logging in AirVPN user bigx
2025-07-30 17:21:44 AirVPN user bigx successfully logged in
2025-07-30 17:21:44 Selected user key: Default
2025-07-30 17:21:44 ERROR: Country united kingdom does not exist
2025-07-30 17:21:44 Logging out AirVPN user bigx
2025-07-30 17:21:44 Session network filter and lock are now disabled
2025-07-30 17:21:44 Bluetit session terminated

[Staff 10232]

2 hours ago, BigX said:

ERROR: Country united kingdom does not exist

Strange. This is the output if it helps 

Hello!

Thanks a lot, we managed to reproduce the problem, it must be a bug: we are investigating. It occurs when you select country GB (United Kingdom) and you are also in the United Kingdom according to Bluetit detection or your declaration on the run control file. The error message is very misleading. More in general, the error occurs when you declare a country and then you try a connection to that same country with --air-country option.

A fix will require a new quick release, but in the meantime please resolve the problem by editing your /etc/airvpn/bluetit.rc file with any text editor with root privileges. Declare that you are in any country where we have no servers with directive "country". For example:

country IT

Then restart Bluetit and try again to connect with --air-country gb option and you should see that the problem is resolved.

As an alternative solution, do not set country directive, instead set the following directive, again on your /etc/airvpn/bluetit.rc

forbidquickhomecountry no

and restart Bluetit.

Kind regards
 

[BigX 1]

Awesome! That's fixed it for me

Thank you.