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I'd like to propose adding the (very popular) OISD Blocklist. This list is also used by other free DNS "Adblock" services like Adhole.org, AhaDNS.com, etc. OISD (https://oisd.nl/) OISD is a pre-filtered blocklist consisting of lots of other popular blocklists. Domains which do not resolve from these blocklists are filtered out on a daily basis. OISD is focusing on functionality and not overblocking. License: ? I couldn't find any licensing information on the website. Raw URL: https://dbl.oisd.nl/ or (alternatively) https://hosts.oisd.nl/

Hello! We reluctantly have to announce gloomy news to you all: Spooky Halloween Deals are now available in AirVPN... Save up to 74% on AirVPN longer plans (*) (*) When compared to 1 month plan price Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/plans If you're already our customer and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period any additional plan will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Every plan gives you all the features that made AirVPN a nightmare for snoopers and a scary service for competitors: a clear mission without compromises https://airvpn.org/mission active OpenVPN 3 open source development WireGuard support exclusive and very flexible, opt-in block lists against malware and other hostile entities. Pick pre-defined lists, add exceptions or additional blocks, or just use our totally neutral DNS by default ChaCha20 cipher on OpenVPN Data Channel for higher performance and longer battery life on tablets and smart phones IPv6 support, including IPv6 over IPv4 configurable remote port forwarding refined load balancing to squeeze every last bit per second from VPN servers free and open source software for Android, Linux, Mac and Windows easy "Configuration Generator" web interface for access through third party software guaranteed minimum bandwidth allocation GDPR compliance and very high standards for privacy protection no log and/or inspection of clients' traffic effective traffic leaks prevention by AirVPN software Tor support via AirVPN software on Linux, Mac and Windows various cryptocurrencies accepted without any intermediary no obligation to use our free and open source software to enter AirVPN infrastructure. Interoperability is an AirVPN priority. perfectly clear and easy to read Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy No tricks, only treats! Grim regards & datathrills AirVPN Staff

I just enrolled in the WireGuard Beta and decided to run benchmarks to check if there was any performance difference compared with OpenVPN. Specs: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with OpenVPN 2.5.1, WireGuard. CPU has AES-NI but weak single-core performance. 1 Gbps line. Methodology: 1. Find a server with low load. 2. Connect to it via OpenVPN 2.51 with cipher AES-256-CBC and additional directives --fragment 0 --mssfix 0 --rcvbuf 0 --sndbuf 0. 3. Load 10 well-seeded Linux torrents (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, etc.) 4. Observe average and top speeds. 5. Repeat immediately afterwards using WireGuard with the same AirVPN server and torrents. Results: OpenVPN: 350 Mbps average, 410 Mbps peak WireGuard: 800 Mbps average, 1064 Mbps peak I cannot believe how much faster WireGuard is. Literally a 2.5 times improvement in speed free of charge, and my 1 Gbps line is now the bottleneck.

Hello! We're glad to introduce a new feature in AirVPN infrastructure: DNS block lists. By default, AirVPN DNS remains neutral in accordance with our mission. However, from now on you have the option to enforce block lists which poison our DNS, in order, for example, to block known sources of ads, spam, malware and so on. You can manage your preferences in your account Client Area ⇨ DNS panel https://airvpn.org/dns/. We offer only lists released with licenses which grant re-distribution for business purposes too. The system is very flexible and offers some exclusive features never seen before in other VPN services: You can activate or de-activate, anytime, any combination of lists. You can add customized exceptions and/or additional blocks. Any specified domain which must be blocked includes all of its subdomains too. Lists which can return custom A,AAAA,CNAME,TXT records are supported. You can define any combination of block lists and/or exceptions and/or additions for your whole account or only for specific certificate/key pairs of your account (Client Area ⇨ Devices ⇨ Details ⇨ DNS) Different matching methods are available for your additions and exceptions: Exact (exact FQDN), Domain (domain and its subdomains), Wildcard (with * and ? as wildcards), Contain, Start with, End with. An API to fetch every and each list in different formats (see Client Area ⇨ API ⇨ dns_lists service) is active Any change in your selected list(s), any added exception and any added block is enforced very quickly, within few tens of seconds. You don't need to disconnect and re-connect your account. You can define your own lists and discuss lists and anything related in the community forum here Essential requisite to enjoy the service is, of course, querying AirVPN DNS while your system is connected to some VPN server, which is by the way a default setup if you run any of our software. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

If you have a proposal of a custom list aimed at blocking domain names, please open a discussion in this forum and provide: Name Description License A raw URL which our system can fetch from periodically in order to build the list It can be either a classic hosts file or a plain list of domain names. In these cases, every domain name is blocked.. Our system can also support a list which returns custom DNS records. Contact us if you want to publish a list of this kind to coordinate with us the file format. Lists that become more huge than 100.000 entries or block domains under our control-list will be automatically disabled. Community lists will be shown in "Lists - Third Party" inside "Client ⇨ DNS" section, opt-in available to AirVPN users. Developers can also obtain lists via "Client ⇨ API" section.

@mith_y2k Hello! First, there is no WireGuard team which comes to know anything about our data and our customers' data. Our system will wipe out the public IP address within the specified amount of seconds if, during that time frame, no packet is exchanged between server and client. About the private IP address in the VPN, you need to act by yourself when you want to destroy the correlation between your account key and your account private IP address, in the way you can read on the FAQ answer. Kind regards

I love this new feature! This is super useful, especially on mobile. With the OpenVPN app, I can now essentially get rid of all trackers and ads with a single click on my iPhone while having an encrypted AirVPN tunnel. 😀 Thanks for adding this. 👍

@OpenSourcerer @yoyall Hello! You can use the list to bypass illegal seizures by ICANN (for example via ICE orders). This happened in the past, when domain names were seized in infringement of EU court decisions and inaudita altera parte (the right to have a legal defense was canceled and the seizure occurred without any judicial overview), so those seizures were illegal under every point of view. Not real news for USA "justice" (???) system. In the last years we have not heard anymore of illegal seizures, but we guess that the precedents are set so they can happen again potentially. Therefore, that's the only list which is not a "block list" whatsoever, quite the contrary. We apologize for the ambiguity. If you have information about seized domains which are not in the list, and the correct IP address they should resolve into, please let us know. Kind regards

Please pass on my thanks to the AirVPN development team. WireGuard works well! 😃 By the way, how does WireGuard daemon remove the endpoint IP addresses of inactive daemons from its memory? What I know, doing so would require restarting the whole daemon, what would in turn interrupt all the existing connections as well. Let us hope the WireGuard developers will merge the dynamic peer IP modification into the master. It seems that chaining WireGuard connections requires now (to reduce likelihood of corrrelation snooping) creating extra device keys to obtain the additional static IP addresses for the hops.

The new "device" selection in Port Forwarding is great if you need multiple devices reachable from the outside but do not have those devices on fixed choices of Air server. Perhaps they all connect to ca3.vpn.airdns.com, for example, whenever they restart. Before this new feature appeared, they might all happen to connect to the same server, leaving you unabled to reach them both through port forwarding. Connections to the single port on the shared server would get forwarded to whichever device connected last. With the new system, you give separate port numbers to each device, and you are golden. And yes, I've tested it. Love it.