Leaderboard

Hello! We're very glad to announce that we have just released Hummingbird for Apple M1 based machines. Hummingbird is a robust, light-weight and very fast OpenVPN 3 command line tool for Linux and macOS offering DNS handling and rock solid traffic leaks prevention out of the box. It's the first time that OpenVPN 3 library and Hummingbird are available as native software in M1 based Mac computers, providing faster execution speed and higher performance. As usual Hummingbird uses our OpenVPN 3 AirVPN library fork, which includes bug fixes and very important features missing in the main branch. Please find overview, details, documentation and download link here: Kind regards

It'd be a drawback the other way around. If de.vpn.airdns.org points to the best server, but your script determined that this server is not reachable, you would get no connection at all. Both things handle different use cases, and your script is correctly written to use the all DNS name here and sort by latency ascending.

Input file is optional, it expects stdin if no input file is presented. I was more or less just toying with the idea of piping so it would be possible to do something like "cat AirVPN.ovpn | ./airvpn_remotes.sh > AirVPN_new.ovpn". But you're right, considering some people may not care for the script's functionality of inline replacing those lines it would probably be better to handle lack of an input-file and stdin as just generating without the original config, which then the user could manually add to their config. I've made that change to the script and updated the OP (which resolves both your improvement suggestion and your remark). Other possible improvements I've considered: allowing the script to update the config's IP protocol. e.g. using IPv6 or IPv4 exclusively (I'm not well versed with OpenVPN configurations so I'd just have to compare the configs I generate from AirVPN's terminal) giving a flag for transport protocol tcp/udp to update / add that respective line more comprehensive scanning of the IPs, instead of a simple ICMP the script could also (optionally) check TCP + UDP availability on the supplied port - granted at some point this evolves from a simple availability checking script to a port scanning script which would get you flagged by your ISP, which I want to avoid. so maybe not the best idea validate the provided port against possible ports instead of requiring the user to specify the DNS query being made explicitly (should they not want the default) and requiring them to refer to AirVPN's FAQ page to figure out which FQDN they need to ping, I could instead have preset options/values. It would make it less flexible though. could add an option to query ALL vpn servers used by AirVPN (the earth.all.vpn.airdns.org record), test them, then add filtering options to either filter by maximum remotes desired (e.g. 20 by default) or by maximum ping allowed Ultimately though I made the script to accomplish my goal, and then got lost refining it to make it pretty. Most of my possible improvements provide no benefit to me and probably minimal benefit for other users, so I'll probably just keep it as is. Additionally, the script itself has the main drawback of specifically using their IPs for single servers and not their DNS records that update every 5 minutes to load balance their servers (which isn't really a drawback in a case like mine where some of their servers are completely blocked). Thanks for taking a look, the compliments, and the advice!

Probably because they decided not to use women and children as suicide bombers, or fire rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. But this isn't really the place to discuss it.