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Hello! We're very glad to inform you that three new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in Toronto (Ontario), Canada, are available: Castula, Chamukuy and Elgafar. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The servers accept connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. They support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor : https://airvpn.org/servers/Castula https://airvpn.org/servers/Chamukuy https://airvpn.org/servers/Elgafar/ Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Congratulations on the launch. This is great news for CA which has had most of its 2 Gbit/s servers pretty saturated during peak hours. Hopefully the ghost of Wurren does not come back to haunt us.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Los Angeles, California, is available: Revati. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Revati supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor , by clicking the server name. Direct link: https://airvpn.org/servers/Revati Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to announce that Eddie Android edition 4.0.0 Beta 1 is now available. UPDATE 2026-01-14: Eddie Android edition 4.0.0 Beta 2 is now available This is a major update: for the first time Eddie Android edition features AmneziaWG complete support. Eddie Android edition is a fully integrated with AirVPN, free and open source client allowing comfortable connections to AirVPN servers and generic VPN servers offering compatible protocols. Eddie 4.0.0 aims primarily at adding, besides the already available OpenVPN and WireGuard, a thorough and comfortable AmneziaWG support. AmneziaWG is a free and open source fork of WireGuard by Amnezia inheriting the architectural simplicity and high performance of the original implementation, but eliminating the identifiable network signatures that make WireGuard easily detectable by Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems. It can operate in several different ways, including a fallback, "compatibility mode" with WireGuard featuring anyway various obfuscation techniques. What's new in Eddie 4.0.0 AmneziaWG support Amnezia WireGuard API stronger anti-blocking logic: ability to log in to the service and download AirVPN infrastructure and user data while connected through a profile with a specific option on the left pane ability to read and use local user data when bootstrap servers are unreachable new "Open with..." option on top of the usual "Share" option to manage and export comfortably generated profiles on any Android version with any suitable application updated AmneziaWG parameters allowed ranges updated OpenSSL, OpenVPN3-AirVPN and WireGuard libraries bug fixes see the complete changelog below AmneziaWG overview From the official documentation: https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg AmneziaWG offers: Dynamic Headers for All Packet Types (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) During tunnel initialization, the library generates a set of random constants applied to each of the four WireGuard packet formats: Init, Response, Data, Under‑Load. These constants: Replace predictable WireGuard packet identifiers; Shift offsets of Version/Type fields; Modify reserved bits. As a result, no two clients have identical headers, making it impossible to write a universal DPI rule. Handshake Length Randomization (compatibility with WireGuard: NO) In WireGuard, the Init packet is exactly 148 bytes, and the Response packet is exactly 92 bytes. AmneziaWG adds pseudorandom prefixes S1 and S2 (0-64 bytes by default): len(init) = 148 + S1 len(resp) = 92 + S2 Offsets of the remaining fields are automatically adjusted, and MAC tags are recalculated accordingly. In order to keep backward compatibility with WireGuard, S1 and S2 must be set to 0. Obfuscation Packets I1-I5 (Signature Chain) & CPS (Custom Protocol Signature) (compatibility with WireGuard: partial, with fallback) Before initiating a "special" handshake (every 120 seconds), the client may send up to five different UDP packets fully described by the user in the CPS format. In this way AmneziaWG can mimic perfectly QUIC, DNS and other protocols adding powerful methods to circumvent blocks. QUIC is particularly interesting as HTTP/3 is built on it and currently, from Chrome and other compatible browsers, 50% of traffic to/from Google is QUIC traffic. Therefore, blocking QUIC may have major disruptions for any ISP. Junk‑train (Jc) (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) Immediately following the sequence of I-packets, a series Jc of pseudorandom packets with lengths varying between Jmin and Jmax is sent. These packets blur the timing and size profile of the session start, significantly complicating handshake detection. Under‑Load Packet (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) In WireGuard, a special keep-alive packet (“Under-Load”) is used to bypass NAT timeouts. AmneziaWG replaces its fixed header with a randomized one, the value of which can be set manually. This prevents DPI from filtering short ping packets, ensuring stable tunnel connections, especially on mobile networks. How to use Eddie with AmneziaWG To enable AmneziaWG mode, just tap the connection mode available in the main and other views. It will rotate between WireGuard, AmneziaWG and OpenVPN. Set it to AmneziaWG. In its default AmneziaWG mode, Eddie will use all the possible obfuscation, except protocol mimicking, that keeps WireGuard compatibility, thus allowing connections to AirVPN servers. The default settings choice was possible thanks to the invaluable support of persons living in countries where VPN blocks are widespread. Such settings have been tested as working and capable to bypass the current blocking methods in various countries. You may consider to modify them if they are ineffective to bypass "your" specific blocks. In Settings > Advanced, you will find, at the bottom of the page, a new "Custom Amnezia WG directives" item. By tapping it you will summon a dialog that will let you customize any possible AmneziaWG parameter. You can maintain backward compatibility with WireGuard in the dialog WireGuard section, or enable the full AmneziaWG support in the Amnezia section, which is not compatible (at the moment) with AirVPN WireGuard servers. This mode will be mostly valuable in a not distant future, when AirVPN servers will start to support AmneziaWG natively. You may also enable QUIC or DNS mimicking for additional obfuscation efficacy. In order to maintain WireGuard backward compatibility, with or without QUIC or DNS mimicking, you must set: S1 = S2 = 0 Hn ∈ {1, 2, 3, 4} H1 ≠ H2 ≠ H3 ≠ H4 Furthermore, do not exceed the valid limit of the J parameters (anyway Eddie will not let you do it). In this preview version, Eddie's formal control of the input data is based on the following document. We strongly recommend you read it if you need to modify manually parameters: https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amneziawg-linux-kernel-module?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration Please do not modify In parameters if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Eddie implements QUIC and DNS mimicking and random obfuscation packets for each specific "I" parameter (by using the corresponding "Generate" button). You can enable them with a tap on the proper buttons. You may mimic QUIC and DNS even to connect to WireGuard based servers. When you enable QUIC mimicking and you maintain WireGuard backward compatibility, you add a powerful tool against blocks, because the first packets will be actual QUIC packets. AmneziaWG will fall back to WireGuard compatibility very soon. However, when DPI and SPI tools, and demultiplexers in general, identify the initial QUIC flow, most of them will be unable to detect a WireGuard flow for several minutes. This has been tested thoroughly with deep packet inspection on Linux and FreeBSD based machines by AirVPN staff. Therefore, in different blocking scenarios the QUIC mimicking increases likelihood of successful block bypass. NOTE: the same does not happen with DNS mimicking. In this case DPI / SPI tools identify the stream initially as DNS, but are much quicker (just in a few dozens of packets) to identify the stream as WireGuard's, after the initial DNS identification. How to use Eddie in network where the "bootstrap" servers can not be reached Eddie downloads user and infrastructure data, essential to use the service, from special "bootstrap servers" through an encrypted flow inside HTTP. If the bootstrap servers are blocked or the underlying protocol to port 80 is filtered out, Eddie is unable to proceed. Starting from this Eddie 4 version, the ability to retrieve such data locally has been added. Whenever bootstrap servers are unreachable, Eddie can read the latest available local data to connect to a VPN server. Once connected the bootstrap servers are again reachable and the local data are immediately updated for future usage. The local data remain valid as long as you don't need to change user. On top of all of the above, Eddie can now retrieve such data through the login procedure that now can be started even when a connection to a VPN server was previously established via a profile. Therefore, when you are in a restrictive network that blocks access to bootstrap servers, you can connect through a profile generated by AirVPN web site Configuration Generator. After this first connection, log your account in to the service by selecting the specific option on the left pane, enter your AirVPN account credentials as usual and make sure that Remember me checkbox is ticked: Eddie will download all the necessary files and store them locally. This procedure is "once and for all", at least as long as you don't need to change account. After this initial connection, Eddie will be able to log your account in to the infrastructure, retrieve servers data and establish connections without profiles and without bootstrap servers, offering again full AirVPN integration even when bootstrap servers are unreachable. Only If you change account you must repeat the procedure. Download link, checksum and changelog https://eddie.website/repository/Android/4.0.0-Beta2/EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-2.apk This is a build debug package and side load is mandatory. If you decide to test, please report at your convenience any bug and problem in this thread. If possible generate a report from the app in a matter of seconds: by tapping the paper plane icon on the Log view bar rightmost side you will generate a full system report which will include both log and logcat and have it sent to our servers. Then you just need to send us the link the app shows you (open a ticket if you prefer to do it in private). $ sha256sum EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-2.apk 20d4aee7a0544eec2ad379b8ab8126c2f276e4762a0a32109cb808701d2c0bb3 EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-2.apk Changelog 4.0.0 (VC 37) - Release date: 26 November 2025 by ProMIND Beta 2 LogActivity.java [ProMIND] added View log button (open with...) MainActivity.java [ProMIND] method startAirVPNManifestRefresh() renamed to startAirVPNDocumentRefresh() [ProMIND] method stopAirVPNManifestRefresh() renamed to stopAirVPNDocumentRefresh() [ProMIND] member timerAirVPNManifestRefresh renamed to timerAirVPNDocumentRefresh [ProMIND] onCreate(): do exported files cleanup [ProMIND] onDestroy(): do exported files cleanup [ProMIND] drawer: added login item [ProMIND] drawer: changed login and logout icons [ProMIND] navigationViewItemSelected(): added code for AirVPN login [ProMIND] onResume(): show proper drawer's login/logout item QuickConnectFragment.java [ProMIND] onCreate(): removed AirVPN autologin (superseeded by extended "remember me" local login) [ProMIND] onCreate(): in case "remember me" is set, do local login by using locally stored user instance SettingsActivity.java [ProMIND] ameziaSettingsDialog(): fixed formal check for jc [ProMIND] removed AirVPN Autologin option (superseeded by extended "remember me" local login) SettingsManager.java [ProMIND] removed added SYSTEM_AIRVPN_AUTOLOGIN and SYSTEM_AIRVPN_AUTOLOGIN_DEFAULT (superseeded by extended "remember me" local login) [ProMIND] removed methods isAirVPNAutologinEnabled() and setAirVPNAutologin() SupportTools.java [ProMIND] added enum ShareMode [ProMIND] sharePlainText(): added argument share mode [ProMIND] sharePlainText(): the code is now compliant to all supported Android versions [ProMIND] sharePlainText(): exclude "myself" from helper apps [ProMIND] removeShareFile() renamed to removeShareFiles() [ProMIND] sharePlainText(): share/view files are now removed on app exit Beta 1 Native Library [ProMIND] updated to version 4.0.0, API 10 [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API [ProMIND] updated to OpenVPN-AirVPN 3.12 (20251126) AirVPNUser.java [ProMIND] getWireGuardProfile(): added Amnezia support ConnectAirVPNServerFragment.java [ProMIND] showConnectionInfo(): added AmneziaWG logo display [ProMIND] onCreateContextMenu(): added AmneziaWG items [ProMIND] onContextItemSelected(): added AmneziaWG items [ProMIND] added method loadVPNProfile() ConnectVpnProfileFragment.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia support EddieLibraryResult.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API QuickConnectFragment.java [ProMIND] onCreateView(): added AmneziaWG logo display [ProMIND] updateStatusBox(): added AmneziaWG logo display SettingsActivity.java [ProMIND] added "Custom AmneziaWG directives" setting SettingsManager.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia specific settings and methods SupportTools.java [ProMIND] removed method getVPNProfile() VPN.java [ProMIND] added methods enableAmneziaWireGuard() and isWireGuardAmneziaEnabled() VPNManager.java [ProMIND] added method isWireGuardAmneziaEnabled() VPNProfileDatabase.java [ProMIND] added AMNEZIA type WebViewerActivity.java [ProMIND] EddieWebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(): it now properly opens android asset files WireGuardClient.java [ProMIND] added WireGuard tunnel node to constructor [ProMIND] added methods for generating Amnezia's junk settings WireGuardTunnel.java [ProMIND] added support for Amnezia WireGuard [ProMIND] added Mode enum [ProMIND] added tunnel node to constructor EddieLibrary.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! Please follow this message to quickly resolve the issue: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/26548-linux-ip-6-addr-add-failed/?do=findComment&comment=72069 The OP problem might be different so your case should not be discussed here. Kind regards

May I request the addition of 10Gbps Tokyo and Singapore servers? Thank you.

Hello! This is interesting. We are gradually activating IPv6 on every server, but you have IPv6 disabled at OS level, and this causes a fatal error. For the moment, you can: - Reactivate IPv6 No good reason is known to disable IPv6 at OS level. If you are scared about IPv6 leak when connecting to servers without IPv6 support, a cleaner solution is simply blocking IPv6 traffic with ip6tables. OR - Append the following directives in your .ovpn files: pull-filter ignore "route-ipv6" pull-filter ignore "redirect-gateway ipv6" pull-filter ignore "dhcp-option DNS6" pull-filter ignore "tun-ipv6" pull-filter ignore "ifconfig-ipv6" redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp This will skip IPv6 configuration of tunnel and avoid your error. We are considering related options to Config Generator. Kind regards

Hello! We had a similar project that is now temporarily frozen for good reasons: in real life the ability of the "AI"s to guess successfully the real destination from analysis of the VPN tunnel traffic is poor (the excellent success rates you see are achieved only in a controlled environment where the victim visits only destinations pre-determined from a tiny list) AmneziaWG is quickly becoming (*) a more universal approach that may be effective and that does not require our own proprietary solution, provided that constant rate tunnel, deterministic batching and traffic morphing are not required -- safe assumptions as DAITA doesn't aim at obtaining them (*) While early AmneziaWG releases could "only" add junk packets during handshakes, making it not suitable to replace DAITA, AmneziaWG latest release is also capable to perform padding of transport messages and modification of their header range. It can do all of the above, optionally, over a faithful imitation of a different protocol (any protocol that can be built on UDP), including specific HTTP/3 web sites initial flow mimicry. While these options efficacy in fighting AI guided traffic analysis must be verified in a controlled environment when AI abilities will improve, and in spite of the fact that AmneziaWG currently lacks the important active distortion feature that DAITA offers, together with reason 1 they are sufficient to let us prioritize AmneziaWG support in the infrastructure and our software, and freeze proprietary solutions research. Once AmneziaWG is operating in the whole infrastructure, it may be considered whether adding active distortion to match this DAITA feature, or anyway building additional features to outperform DAITA (on top of the many already available in Amnezia and not from scratch), is worth the effort or not. Kind regards

Hello! On Eddie 2.22 and higher versions you can "fix" the interface name by setting it on Eddie's "Preferences" > "Networking" window (make sure you pick an interface name that's valid in your system). Kind regards

@3x3x3 Hello! Assuming that the notices are genuine, we need to remind you that VPN usage must be compliant to the relevant legal framework of the country the VPN server is in. With all of the above said, you must make sure you do not suffer traffic leaks outside the VPN tunnel. If you run AirVPN software, this is easily achieved by activating Network Lock which is also active by default during connections (opt out). You also must make sure that you don't start the torrent software before you have connected to some VPN server if you don't run AirVPN software. Network Lock is a set of firewall rules that remain in place even in case of software crash and protect you from leaks even when the torrent software is configured in a way that permits it to bypass the VPN tunnel (typical example: UPnP enabled). Please read AirVPN FAQ and starting guide, you will get plenty of useful information and avoid unpleasant consequences by improper usage. All the important links are included in the welcome message and you can start from here: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/18339-guide-to-getting-started-links-for-advanced-users FAQ: https://airvpn.org/faq Binding a software to the VPN network interface is another excellent layer of defense. It is highly valuable in case of a "momentary lapse of reason", for example if you completely forget to fire up AirVPN software (or your favorite software) and you start the torrent program with already active torrents. Interface binding is a simple setting if supported by your torrent program. Procedure varies according to the program you run, please read your software documentation. Kind regards

Hello! The AirVPN integration is kindly maintained by GlueTun developer. In brief, servers information is retrieved from the servers,json file which is updated several times a year. When starting up, Gluetun merges the hardcoded list and the contents of servers.json, preferring newer data and including any custom entries marked to be kept. For more details and a more accurate description please see here: https://deepwiki.com/qdm12/gluetun/6-server-management At this moment, while we're writing this message, the servers in Amsterdam have not yet been added. You can wait for the next update, or you may add them manually, by abiding to the json format. Alternatively you can point directly, through the proper environment variable, to the correct entry-IP address of the server you wish to connect to. In such cases you find all the information you need on the server status page https://airvpn.org/status and by generating a configuration file with the Configuration Generator. Here's an example for Vindemiatrix, only for WireGuard connections. This sub-block must be inserted in the correct position inside the airvpn block: study the file structure to quickly understand. Make sure to edit the file while no container is running. { "vpn": "wireguard", "country": "Netherlands", "region": "Europe", "city": "Amsterdam", "server_name": "Vindemiatrix", "hostname": "nl3.vpn.airdns.org", "wgpubkey": "PyLCXAQT8KkM4T+dUsOQfn+Ub3pGxfGlxkIApuig+hk=", "keep": true, "ips": [ "94.228.209.212" ] }, You then need to restart the container(s) in order to merge the current list with the edited one. The "Keep": true line/flag (inside the server definition) ensures that the server will not be wiped out if you rebuild the server list. Kind regards

Hello! Hold on @Tech Jedi Alex, you hit the mark. You were just misled by this: 0777 is for a directory, but for data files the default is 0666, here's why the user ends up with 644: For the reader, if the umask is 022, the newly created file by root will get 644 (rw-r--r--) (the complement of 666 with 022 in octal) which causes the first problem. So that's why /sbin/bluetit doesn't have x even though it does in the extracted package. It doesn't matter that the original bluetit file has 755, the umask starts from 666. cp in the original script lacks the -p option so this problem should get resolved by your change with install (it should be solved even by adding "-p" to the cp command, or an additional chmod of course). It looks like a long time installation script issue that went strangely unnoticed. Noted down for a fix in the next release or a package hot fix, we'll see. Apparently there is another problem too but maybe it's not related to Suite's installation, we'll keep following the thread. Kind regards

Should be Elgafar, right? Was briefly confused that eldafar had no IP.

How can the load percentage be conveyed even clearer in your opinion? Those are highly subjective things depending on your setup, and I don't want to see them as data points in a server overview showing factual data valid for everyone the same way. Load (= bandwidth usage), number of clients and RTT between the servers are factual data valid for everyone, whereas your own latency and "connection quality metrics" are the result of your client's configuration, connection type and its config, ISP, routes, etcetc. I mean, what is even the definition of "connection quality" in your own words? Preferably something that is valid for you, me and the random reader of this thread at the same time.

Your best bet might be to request a reroute over the DE rerouting server. Kindly open a support request and give a few URLs to blocked content.

I'm running Linux Mint with a VM of Windows 7. Both have Eddie and going through the same physical Ethernet cable over Cable Internet. The latency on Linux start in the 40s whereas on the VM of Windows 7 running in that Linux start in the low 20s which. Included is the Linux on left and windows 7 VM on the right. Linux is a new install with Eddie 2.24.6 whereas the Win7 is running on Eddie 2.18.9.

Thanks @pit61. I've asked the staff to create a new How-To document based on this info. The old Tomato How-To is very dated and these settings worked very nicely.

Thank you very much. For the readers: the key information here and other threads where the problem could be resolved swiftly is that it does not matter how you configure it: Plex will always listen to port 32400 of the VPN interface. Therefore, AirVPN's port "re-mapping" function comes handy. Once you choose a random port for your Plex server on your AirVPN account port panel, fill the "Local" field with "32400". Reach the Plex server from the Internet on the port remotely forwarded and the VPN server will take care to forward the packets to port 32400 of your local VPN interface. Kind regards

Maximum of 7.3 Gb/s on Terebellum. I think most users are probably not using that much bandwidth to push the 10 Gb/s servers to their max.

I think so. My VPN functions the same as before, and I'm able to connect to blocked websites.

With IPv6 allowing practically infinite IPs it should be possible to assign a dedicated IPv6 address to each connection, allowing incoming connections to any port to be forwarded. This would be a great way to circumvent the port forwarding restrictions on IPv4 that exist because multiple clients have to share the same exit IP, and I think would make for a nice optional feature.

Hello! Many thanks for all these information and insight. Indeed I completely agree with what you state. Meanwhile, I identified the culprit of plasmashell crashing: a system resource plasmoid I use on the Plasma desktop background. If I remove it, no crashes happen anymore. So the safe solution is to report it to its owner/author. Despite this I was unable to crash and end Eddie GUI gracefully, so I might have misidentified this happening. That said I will keep an eye and report again if I find a reproducible way. And I understand this is beyond your control and thank you very much for the feedback. Kind regards!

This wouldn't really interact with the existing port forwarding system at all. The point is to not have to forward any ports at all, all traffic to your public IP would automatically be forwarded to you, circumventing the entire port forwarding mechanism. The advantage is that you don't have a limitation on the number of forwarded ports anymore or restrictions on which exact ports are available. You'd have access to the entire range of 65535 ports. This is useful for several scenarios, for example if you have multiple clients that need port forwarding you run out very fast. It's also useful for punching through restricted networks or heavily NATed/CG-NATed networks and get a publicly addressable IP. Useful if I want to e.g. share a file with someone on IRC but we're both behind CG-NAT, or if I want to spin up a http server to show off a demo but the cafe I'm at blocks incoming port 80. As for the server infrastructure, stateless address translation is less resource intensive than stateful NAT, so the more popular of a feature this is the less the routing overhead on the servers will be. There's plenty of ways for spammers and other evildoers to do that for free already, they wouln't need an AirVPN subscribtion to get trillions of ipv6 addresses. Which is why with ipv6 nobody blocks on a per-address level, but prefixes.

Looking in Eddie, I can deduce a possible reason. If the scoring rule is set to Speed, which is the default, only four servers actually get a non-zero score, putting only those four into consideration of the Connect to best server function. The client count reflects that. I quick-tested a connection to Sweden on Android, and Copernicus was chosen to be the best server.. huh. Also interesting: The first three are hosted by Altushost, Segin is Netrouting, rest seems to be Kustbandet. ISP might play a role here, too.

Hello! It's by Telecomix, a group an AirVPN founder co-operated with! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix Kind regards

Yeah. You could say it's been defaced. Use the 😈 goddamn 👺 emojis "<evil grin>" this is so cringe lmao

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Hello and welcome! Another interesting use case is when you live in a country where trying to access the Tor network raises a red flag on you but the HTTP/3 (QUIC) traffic does not. So you first circumvent the blocks via some adequate VPN related protocol that looks like QUIC and only then you fire up Tor, so the regime can't trivially infer that you're trying to use Tor. Sometimes it is more practical and safer than struggling to find Tor bridges: a risk assessment is due, on a case by case basis. Kind regards

Hello! Be aware that 4 Mbit + 4 Mbit/s of guaranteed allocation is great for the pricing of AirVPN. Our competitors offer 0.0 (best effort, no minimum allocation guaranteed). Please consider that if residential ISPs in Europe had all of their customers connected simultaneously and requiring full bandwidth at the same time, the allocation by most of such ISPs (if performed equally for each customer) would be between 0.1 and 10 Mbit/s. The biggest ISPs in Europe (example: TIM in Italy) have an average per residential customer consumption (fixed lines: in mobility much less) of 190 GB/month, which on average means 0.58 Mbit/s throughout the month. Residential networks are normally designed and sized on the basis of these values with congestion control (traffic shaping) during peak hours or any unexpected event. Guaranteeing no overselling beyond 4 + 4 Mbit/s was and is even nowadays a significant effort by AirVPN. In practice, as you can see on the "Top User Speed" chart, users can easily beat 500 Mbit/s, there is no congestion. But if all customers connected at the same time (assuming a fair distribution on all servers) then everyone would anyway have 4 Mbit/s (4 + 4 server side). Kind regards

You are making absolutely zero sense with that comparison. It's 98% of people who don't bother changing profile settings. Which also means, 98% of profiles will be hidden, as the default visibility setting of the profile is Hide for all. Now, you could, of course, change that setting for you yourself, open up to the community, and provide that info, especially to explicitly provide your gender as to foster correct referrals to your person. I sincerely believe, that's what this is all about: Reducing the risk of hurting someone in a conversation. But, let's explore this situation a little. Suppose someone wants to find out how to refer to some other poster around here. First hurdle: 98% of profiles are hidden. Means, one in fifty is open. So the profile is clicked to find out "so, do I say him, do I say them?" and, oh darn, hidden profile. Then that person answers another person, clicks the profile, oh darn, hidden again. And a third, hidden. And a fourth, hidden. That person quickly learns: "Why bother, all the profiles are hidden, anyway", and defaults to "he", "he/she" or "them". Or even "per". So even if you sincerely wanted to do so, correctly referring to another person without the chance of having the necessary info left of every post gets tedious and downright impossible to do with all the profiles being hidden. Hence why the gender info might provide the choices for many genders, but what's the point if no one can look at it? Even if one of those profiles was opened, it doesn't mean all the fields were filled. The probability of finding a correct pronoun for referral gets even lower. As I wrote, we are here for discussions around AirVPN and VPN technology in general (actually, tech support for AirVPN), with some related topics around it. It would be a first for me to find out that gender is important in discussions about VPN tech. You are right that, in the past, I mostly defaulted to the masculine form when referring to any one poster (I prepended a Mr. to every username when referring to that user) but am shifting to @ mentions instead, those are neutral and even cause notifications. That's probably the most scandalous thing in regard to genders one can accuse me of. Homophobia… just really isn't. And, please, do not start the race thing. There is a good, tangible reason to publish pronouns. There is absolutely no reason to publish race, so it's incomparable. A little bit of warning: I will move this discussion to off-topic as, while it refers to the forums software of AirVPN, it does not relate to AirVPN tech directly. Don't think anything bad about the move, it is not an attempt to silence you. Simple moderator chore: Every post to the correct subforum. I am futhermore happy to continue discussing this matter with you (and everyone may join, I might add). But, should your tone of discussion not shift to be more constructive, with less baseless slander against any one person here, I'm putting a warning point on the table. This will come with being put on moderator queue which will see all your posts being screened before publication (as is actually the case right now as you're a new poster). Thank your for your understanding in this matter, and to a good, fruitful discussion. 🍷

Are you sure you don't have an option somewhere in the gateway settings to prevent opnsense making static routes for monitor IP? I have that in pfsense. I usually trace the route through the VPN interface to anything (e.g. 9.9.9.9) and then use the first or second hop as the monitor address for that gateway. In past experience I've had times where gateway monitoring said everything was fine but reaching the internet wasn't happening. That's why I've taken to pinging something on the other side of the VPN gateway.

Privacy is not the only only reason to use a VPN. Also, while it would be possible to assert that traffic going to a specific IP is tunneled to the same end user, going through a VPN means you still don't know who that end person is or where they're located based on their IP. And since we're talking about incoming traffic, this kind of analysis is already possibly by also looking at the destination port of the incoming connection. This wouldn't affect IPv4 port forwarding. All IPv4 connections would still use a shared IPv4 exit address. It wouldn't even affect port forwarding for IPv6 users that don't enable this feature. This would just be an option to get a dedicated exit IP that would forward all traffic statelessly. Traffic going to the shared exit IPs would go through the same port forwarding translations it already does.

Do you intend to add it to PC's client at some point as well?

@zimbabwe @AG999 @Upre1943 @Stalinium @Nonsense @H12345h12345 Hello! Eddie Android edition 4.0.0 preview implements full AmneziaWG support: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/77633-eddie-android-edition-400-preview-available/ Feel free to test and report back (bug, glitches...)! Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Here is my working Open VPN config on a Netgear R7000 with Fresh Tomato:

I currently run a linux firewall without eddie and just use openvpn client. here is what i did to protect against dns leaks and maintain privacy. i don't use windows because of privacy concerns so i don't know how well this translates. assuming you have a layer 3/4 firewall, you can try this. the network: set the interface to start disabled on bootup. this is not necessary, but will work if you're firewall is not default. then you can set your firewall before the interface is open. nothing can leak during boot because the interface did not come up. in the firewall: set policy to block on input (inbound), output, and forward (or whatever windows equivalent is). this should be the default action in case there are no specific rules to catch particular traffic. setting this means nothing passes the firewall unless you explicitly allow it. set all rules with tracking (ct state), such that no inbound traffic is allowed unless it is a response from a request you sent out. only exception is icmp and other network diagnostic protocols like traceroute, which in my opinion should be open. icmpv6 should be selectively open since it also does network setup. log all blocked traffic on the physical interface: open source and destination port 67/68, udp, inbound and outbound so your ISP can give you an IP. configure your client to not accept the dns it will give you. open destination upd port 53 or 853 only for specific IPs, typically a public DNS that advertises no logs. this is your fall back in case vpn drops or if you connect to vpn using a domain name. your ISP will see this traffic, but it will not be destined to your ISP DNS. it will pass through and go to the server you specify. i am not yet convinced encrypted dns actually hides your dns, but i would consult with a network admin. open destination tcp/udp port 1194 (or whatever port you are using for VPN). Do not use port 443 for VPN as that is the same port for https website traffic. Note: broadly speaking, destination port 53 and 853 will not be open, blocking dns leaks. this is permanent i used to have to open port 80 for AirVPN IPs to make the initial connection, but I don't see this in my firewall anymore, so it may not be necessary. if you see this in your firewall logs when attempting a vpn connection, apply this rule in the same format as above, but make sure it is limited to only just the AirVPN IPs as this would otherwise allow normal website traffic. on the tunnel interface: open source and destination port 67/68, udp, inbound and outbound so Airvpn can give you an IP. you can use AirVPN dns, or create a rule to use the public dns of your choice like on the physical interface. open destination port 53 outbound on the 10/8 IP range, or if you have a way to limit it to just the DNS that you get with VPN, that'll work. (AirVPN will give you an IP starting with 10.) open destination port ntp outbound on the 10/8 IP range (to keep the time accurate on your devices) open destination tcp port 80,443 outbound, for website traffic. 8443 for websockets if you use things like chat/voice on a website app like discord. Ongoing: open any other ports you may be using, such as Steam IPs. Check your firewall logs any time something doesn't work, and add those ports. exhibit discernment about whether to open a port, as you may see crap trying to leak out of your network, not just dns. this is expected and is keeping your stuff private. speedtest sites like to use port 8080, so open destination port 8080 (ct state new) if you want to test your speed, and on inbound, open source port 8080 (ct state established) Note: broadly speaking, destination port 53 and 853 will not be open, blocking dns leaks. this is permanent Extra Notes: starting or stopping your vpn will not change any firewall rules. you will not have access to websites unless vpn is up. this will not work if you're using port 443 for your tunnel. the tunnel port and website port needs to be different. in some countries, this may not be possible. for every outbound destination port (ct state new) opened, there should be a corresponding inbound source port (ct state established) opened as well. traffic is 2 way, outgoing request, incoming response this may not be comprehensive. my firewall has a lot more rules and i may have missed something. view your firewall logs to see what is being blocked, and see whether you need to open it. This should absolve the need for a network lock, and maintain privacy during bootup and anytime eddie is not running. check your firewall logs for traffic on port 53 over the wan interface. these will be dns leaks you prevented. A quick note about windows: Microsoft overrides the hosts files and looks for various microsoft domains it uses for telemetry gathering. it will ignore these rules. this means the standards government hosts files are no longer being followed. this is a violation of long standing networking standards and causes people to reduce trust in the rest of the windows network setup. because of this, you should no longer trust that your firewall will not be overridden by Windows and allow dns traffic through even if you explicitly blocked it. Microsoft has admitted to running a keylogger since Windows 10. i mean ... my god. linux has come a long way in usability. you no longer have to be a hacker to run it well. i would make an attempt to convert to linux. it has been 30 years since computers were around. it is no longer acceptable to be computer-illiterate. old world literacy means you know how to use a feather quill pen. modern literacy means you know how to work your way around a computer. know the tool you use to communicate. linux is a different paradigm, but it is still just a computer. It would be great if somewhere on this site is pinned exact instructions for windows. it will help those concerned and those who don't yet know they should be. for anyone knowledgeable enough, please feel free to correct any of this if it is incorrect. share the knowledge! i don't frequent this site. admins have permission to edit this. -s

Hey there, Taiwan is a provincial administrative region of China, an inalienable part of China’s territory. But when I checked my IP on ipleak.net, I saw Taiwan was shown with those outdated flags, which is totally wrong. These flags don’t reflect the fact that Taiwan belongs to China. Using them misrepresents Taiwan’s status and goes against the One - China principle. It’s really important to fix this mistake. Please correct the display and stop using such wrong flags. Let’s make sure the info about Taiwan is right, in line with the One - China principle. Thanks for handling this!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Miami, Florida (USA), is available: Dziban. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator. The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. It supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor : https://airvpn.org/servers/Dziban Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), is available: Kornephoros. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Kornephoros supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor . Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! Starting from version 2.3, firewalld by default owns exclusively nftables tables generated by itself, thus preventing Eddie, Bluetit and Hummingbird Network Lock related operations. If you want to have Network Lock enabled and firewalld running at the same time, then you must configure firewalld by setting the following option: NftablesTableOwner=no in firewalld's configuration file, usually /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf . After you have edited the configuration file with any text editor with root privileges, reload firewalld configuration or restart firewalld, and only then (re)start Bluetit, Hummingbird or Eddie. Additional insights: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/firewalld-add-flags-owner-persist-in-fedora-42/148835 https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-5-breaks-netfilter/16551 Kind regards

If you notice that the connection speed drops down again increase the Jc parameter (I recommend values 10-80) and rearrange the H1, H2, H3, H4 values (they should be the numbers from 1 to 4 but their order can be any). ТСПУ is able to detect and throttle AmneziaWG and I personally had this situation twice, and twice I had to pump up the Jc parameter. Don't set it too high though: too much junk is also abnormal and potentially can become a fingerprint. According to the recent news Roskomnadzor has set a budget of 60 billion rubles (655 000 000 USD) to significantly upgrade their wonderboxes in the next 5 years. So I guess even more fun is coming. I've already bought a cheap VPS and installed Xray (VLESS-TCP-XTLS-Vision-REALITY), sing-box (Shadowsocks with 2022-blake3-aes-128-gcm) and Cloak but don't use it much to keep the IP from prematurely getting into the black lists (if they even currently exist in Russia, but in Iran they already do). May be it's all over the top but who knows the future? For now my main method of accessing the larger data world is still the good old AirVPN.

Anyway I understand your position, no problem. Like Russians say "Сытый голодного не разумеет" ("the well-fed does never understand the hungry").

You know, it's sort of sad to think that you must fall into the darkness just because you are not belonging to the "overwhelming majority of the world". China, Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Egypt, Turkey. Who's next? I know we are all the "third world" but we are people and want the information! If no one will lend us a hand from the greater world, where life is still okay, we won't ever make it out of the darkness.

FYI, links for Eddie for Android are broken ;)

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins

Hello, could you please make a tutorial? I tried this but Im doing something wrong, because the client cant connect to the AIR servers after I set the firewall rules ... A permanent network locker is for other vpn providers normal, but here? Why you dont just make a option in the Eddie client? Anyway a tutorial would be great

hello people, i have a question because of the network lock in airvpn, i activated it but 1 problem: its only working when the AIRVPN client is started, i chose airvpn auto windows start but the problem is that still with ssd its taking maybe 5 seconds to start (it starts with loading beam). the question is how can if fix that? example: the airvpn client eddie crashes (latest version ofc) -> my internet IS UNPROTECTED! thanks for any help regards

By using Tor behind an AirVPN node, you are blacklisting dozens of websites for no reason. IRC servers such as Freenode have been blocked, and now even imgur is blocked from uploading because it thinks its Tor. Heze is a good server and its one of only two on the West Coast, so please stop running Tor behind AirVPN nodes.

The United States is an enemy of the Internet. More and more our technology and communications are captured illegaly and stored for many years and then used against us in court. The government seems to sincerely believe that it owns the Internet and regulary hacks into foreign servers to retrieve data, seizes domain names, etc. and any citizen who can be considered a hacker under broad laws will be thrown in prison. My warning as a US citizen is to watch out, encrypt, keep everything secure, keep data offshore, and avoid any US-influenced entities such as ICANN. Thank you AirVPN for the great continued service. I've been using multiple VPN connections almost constantly for the past year everywhere and as far as I can see that will continue

Yes, it's annoying. I know your thinking, unknown TOR exit runners, you want to help the TOR network by providing one more exit node, because kind of I am afraid of possible legal consequences running a TOR exit node over my ISP line but now I'm behind a VPN and I want to help; it's okay so far. But it's not okay to not take into consideration that some of us use services and websites which constantly try to prevent TOR exit IPs from viewing them (not limited to TOR, some try to block all anonymizer services). A TOR server will be listed on a TOR exit servers list even after you shut it down and as long as it's there we suffer from blocks. Blocks we are trying to circumvent; that's what a proxy service is good for, right? In addition, AirVPN run two exits themselves. Given the bandwidth of these servers (100 MBit/s) I don't think your contribution is a great gain in overall TOR performance as your internet connection is most probably not that fast and not that stable (I assume you use your internet to watch Netflix, play games online and the like, creating traffic which lowers performance of the node). Third, you expose AirVPN and yourself to attacks from the internet by those who want to literally destroy TOR. Attacks on AirVPN's servers will cause line problems, line problems harm the user's experience. You as a TOR exit runner (although behind a VPN) expose yourself to attacks, too: It's not the AirVPN server who gets infected because a vulnerability in the TOR software is being abused; it's your computer. Your computer gets infected, and it's most probably your personal computer with your personal information on it. Your antivirus software is just a bunch of algorithms, too, it's not supposed to detect 100% of vulnerabilites in software and prevent their abuse. And: It's you who will be marked an extremist. If you think it's easy these days to help TOR you are mistaken. Maybe installation and setup is easy, to preserve your own security by running this piece of software sadly is not. So, before you start that TOR software again, think twice. Thank you.