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Hello! We're very glad to announce a remarkable expansion of our inbound remote port forwarding system aimed at avoiding once and for all the port exhaustion problem. The comfort and the growth problem In the AirVPN "Port Forwarding" service, unlike some of our competitors we grant that assigned ports are not server specific. We also ensure that they remain permanently reserved to an account for as long as any valid plan is active. This unique system offers unparalleled comfort as you don't have to worry about server switches, zone selections and program re-configurations. However, ports are only 65536, because the space reserved for them in a TCP/IP packet header is 2 bytes, and the inconvenience of the great comfort brought by the AirVPN service is that the port exhaustion is nearing as more and more users decide to use the service. A "no compromise" solution Our goal was to avoid port exhaustion while maintaining maximum comfort. We are introducing a new system specifically designed to achieve this goal. Now we allocate not only a port number, but a port number associated with a port pool. For example a port on pool :1 can be assigned to a user, and the same port number in pool :2 can be assigned to another user. Existing assigned port will come from the first pool (:1). Currently we offer two pools, but more pools can be added whenever necessary. With this method, port exhaustion is postponed indefinitely while the comfort of the service is preserved. In the following example you can see the pool (:1, :2 for now) specified right after the port number. The account has port 24860 reserved in both pools. How it works Each Air VPN server sends out clients' VPN traffic through a shared exit IP address. From now on, AirVPN servers feature multiple exit IP addresses, each of which is linked to a specific port pool. Therefore we can determine which pool a port/address is associated with and route traffic accordingly. The implications for AirVPN users and customers The obvious good impact is that port availability increases dramatically. The new system is not difficult at all and extremely similar to the previous one: simply use DDNS (*) names with port forwarding, and not the direct IP address. Your account name(s) based on AirVPN's DDNS will always resolve into the correct server's exit-IP address related to the pool of your assigned port. If you prefer to rely on IP addresses or anyway you don't want to define domain names through AirVPN's DDNS, you can find the correct IP address used by clicking the Test Open button available in your AirVPN account port panel. Please note that this IP address could change over time, so domain names defined by DDNS are a more comfortable solution. There is only a modest caveat (which could be resolved in the future), please see below. Caveat Any setup not involving manual communication on how to connect to a service, as it happens with a p2p program, does not need domain names at all. If a program transmits autonomously how it can be reached (typical examples: some blockchain wallet programs, all torrent programs), at this stage please make sure you forward a port from pool 1 for those programs. For p2p programs that allow manual announcement configuration of the IP address, you can also use pool 2. (*) DDNS is a service offered automatically for free to all accounts and included on every and each AirVPN plan. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to announce a special promotion on our long term Premium plans for the end of Summer or Winter, according to the hemisphere you live in.  You can get prices as low as 2.06 €/month with a three years plan, which is a 70% discount when compared to monthly plan price of 7 €. If you're already our customer and you wish to stay aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Please verify AirVPN features and check plans special prices on https://airvpn.org and https://airvpn.org/buy All reported discounts are computed against the 7 EUR/month plan. The sale will end on September the 24th (UTC) Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

It contains fixes for 2.21.x, so 2.24.2 may even be better for some people. Nothing too experimental about it, despite the name.

Nope, this is the correct designation. Taiwan province is part of The People's Republic Of China and will be peacefully reunited one day.