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Hello! The problem affects those users who run Eddie Desktop edition with OpenVPN and never logged out for more than a year, or use OpenVPN clients with configuration files generated before 2021. Since Eddie Desktop edition re-downloads certificates and keys only when the operator logs in, locally some certificates have expired because we extend their expiration date automatically at least one year in advance (three years normally). Please try the following procedure to quickly resolve the problem: run Eddie on Eddie's main window uncheck "Remember me" log your account out log your account in (you'll need to re-enter your AirVPN credentials) try again a connection Kind regards

@valkyrie89 Hello! Inbound remote port forwarding is a feature divorced from the VPN p-t-p communication protocol, it all relies on NAT configuration through packet mangling, so you can use it both with OpenVPN and WireGuard. Kind regards

Thank you for the explanation. But I can't seem to figure out how to get started with Python, I still have to do some research there.

Hello! Yes, there are many upgrades ongoing on the whole infrastructure. On top of the usual, periodical system updates, we are adding an important new feature we will announce in the future (maybe as early as June, but don't take it for granted). Kind regards

@blank90 Hello! As @SurprisedItWorks wrote you may rely on https://ipleak.net, or you can also use the AirVPN API. Check your "Client Area" > "API" panel for instructions and commands through the API navigator. With a single fetch you can get all the data of all the servers, for example. Kind regards

In case you face such a situation again or others are curious: At ipleak.net there is a small window at the top where you can enter an IP address you wish to know more about. It will identify an Air server.

Awesome, this is what I had figured. I got it working eventually by having the Eddie client using a different DNS, which isn't ideal. My guess is I am still setting something up wrong because @Staff made it pretty clear it should work and I have no reason to not believe that.

Finally upgraded to DSM 7.2.1 so I edited first post with your comments. Adapted it to new AirVPN config generator look. Also added last part if you want to have faster connection to AirVPN.

Hello! Only if Network Lock option is enabled you can safely switch servers "on the fly", because Network Lock will prevent any possible traffic leak outside the VPN tunnel. Kind regards

Hello! You can either use the OpenVPN version packaged with Eddie, Hummingbird, or another version, as you prefer. To change OpenVPN version selected by Eddie, please install in your system the OpenVPN version you prefer; then, run Eddie and from its main window select "Preferences" > "Advanced". Beside the "OpenVPN custom path" field please click the file requester symbol to navigate through your file system and choose the proper OpenVPN binary file. Finally click "Save". Alternatively just type in the field the binary name with the complete, absolute path, and click "Save". Kind regards

Thank you so much staff! I installed Eddie 24 and tried every allowed MTU but it didn't change anything. Then changed connection country to Holland and bang! boom! download jumped to 900 Mbps. Happy! I hope that the powered up port system will give more than 5 ports to people like me who need more. Thank you, great service

Sure technically it is possible. It comes with caveats especially the troubles caused by MTU size mismatches are a hassle to diagnose and resolve. If you asked me, that's the reason most clients and providers don't attempt it. There's very tiny benefit overall. Yet the downside to VPNs of double the traffic. You are right, this may be an issue with your ISP. Maybe they changed the routing and it's *only* an MTU issue... again. If you have IPv6 try to connect via IPv6. It's doable on Windows + OpenVPN too with a lot of careful config commands to set up a correct route. An easier approach is to nest virtual machines here are 2 examples: Host OS: Connected to server 1 Guest OS: NAT Network (uses host's connection, vpn via s1 here) + connected to server 2. Do your browsing inside guest to access internet via isp-s1-s2-internet Alternatively you do not connect to VPN on Host OS, but Guest1 is connected to S1 and inside Guest1 you run another nested (sic) VM Guest2 that connects to S2.

Hello everyone I've had a problem for a few days Unable to connect Eddie. He keeps trying to connect but can't do it. If anyone can help me, that would help me a lot. thanks in advance

Great thank you very much, everything works again It was all stupid Thanks again

Hello! Please try the following procedure to quickly resolve the problem: run Eddie on Eddie's main window uncheck "Remember me" log your account out log your account in (you'll need to re-enter your AirVPN credentials) try again a connection Kind regards

Hello everyone! We hereby publish the Community Forum policy in response to requests for clarification as apparently the generic invitations to comply to Netiquette are not sufficient. We will spread this information throughout the platform if necessary. This document pertains only to Community forums and not to AirVPN forums for official AirVPN communications and guides, where only AirVPN staff can open new threads. The Community Forums are managed and maintained by AirVPN, inside its own infrastructure, and are intended to be an environment to: improve AirVPN services through community driven suggestions provide an old style, relaxed platform for customers to get technical help in addition to the core assistance provided by the professional AirVPN customer care and support team. Community forum is open to everybody, including non-AirVPN customers, and moderated by AirVPN staff. Community moderators may be appointed by AirVPN staff on a voluntary basis to improve moderation. Messages posted on the forums and authors must comply with the following rules: Message content and author's behavior must respect Netiquette rules as described here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/netiquette Content must be rigorously on topic. The topic is specified in the description of each forum or made explicit in the name itself. Any form of explicit or surreptitious advertising for third party companies or private activities is prohibited. Moderators have the task to enforce compliance with the above rules. Messages that violate the rules can be deleted. When possible, moderators will inform the author about the infringement. Authors of two or more messages whose content violates the rules can have their accounts temporarily prevented from posting in the forum. If the author of a message reputes that a moderator made a mistake in the moderation actvity, communication with the moderator is encouraged. If the author is still unsatisfied by communication with the moderator, AirVPN staff can be contacted at info@airvpn.org. The staff undertakes to examine author's' complaints within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Speaking only for myself here, but it's a combination of two things: 1) Setting up a router (like pfsense) with an even slightly more complicated network layout (and adding VPN tunneling definitely complicates things) is about as much fun as rolling around naked in a pile of crushed glass and rock salt. Unless you're a network engineer with at least a decade of experience, it involves a lot of arcane settings which affect things in subtle and often non-intuitive ways, so your only bet is to find a detailed guide and follow it like the Bible. Even then things usually don't work perfectly, and you end up having to tweak things without knowing exactly what you're doing. This meme captures the experience quite well: My code works, I have no idea why 2) Updating pfsense comes with a small, but definitely non-0 risk of things going pear-shaped, and you having to go through all the joy of setting it up again. Let a very practical anecdote illustrate the above: When I updated from pfsense 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 a few years ago, something went to sh*t and my Internet no longer worked. Before updating I had taken a config backup, but restoring that backup on top of the new version did not restore functionality. Since the settings were exactly the same as before the update, I had absolutely no idea what to change to make it work again. The only solution was to downgrade to 2.4.5, which also turned out to be an unholy pain in the arse because: a) My Internet wasn't working, so I had to drag a laptop down to the ISP router and plug it in directly to it, then search for everything I needed with it uncomfortably propped up in a place in my house not designed to house any computer equipment. b) Pfsense does seemengly everything it can to hide away old versions, because they don't want people installing them, so just finding the right image to install took hours. c) I then had to drag the pfsense box to the only computer in the house that still has a COM port, and hook the thing up to it. This was also a pain because the machine is now a mutimedia machine, and only hooked up to a projector. The keyboard is also in an extremly unergonomic position, because you're meant to watch movies on the thing, not hack stuff. Then I had to fight with getting the COM port connection to work, only to figure out that the cable I was using was apparently the wrong kind, so I had to get another, which finally allowed me to downgrade pfsense, import the old settings and have everything working again. This whole clusterf*** took about 10 - 12 hours of work spread out over two days - all the time with no Internet connection other than the crappy laptop one, and an annoyed wife nagging about when she can go on Facebook again, and why we can't have "normal Internet like everybody else". So when faced with the choice whether to update or not... I hope you realize that experiences like the above have just a tiny bit of impact on the cost/risk/value -evaluation people do whenever they're faced with a choice of any kind...

Hello! No, it was not and it is not. Every and each machine runs on non-affected Operating Systems, typically FreeBSD and Debian 12. Debian 12 trivially is not affected because it does not include (in the official repositories we point at) the exploited xz versions 5.6.0 / 5.6.1 (and of course we did not build them from git) while in FreeBSD: Gordon Tetlow, security officer, https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-security/2024-March/000248.html). Kind regards

Actually, it is possible to chain AirVPN connections so that you enter from one country and exit from another, if you are using Linux. Keep in mind though that doing so will consume 2 airvpn sessions out of the 5 you are allowed instead of just 1. To do that, here are the steps you need to follow: 1. Set up a systemd-nspawn container that connects to the AirVPN server in Miami 2. Keep in mind the entry ipv4 of the AirVPN server you want to exit from. You can find this in the Endpoint= line in the wireguard conf you download. 3. Set up IP Masquerading in the container from step 1 using iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -i host0 -o (name of AirVPN wireguard interface) -j MASQUERADE 4. Remember to also allow ip forwarding on both the contaienr and the host machine 5. On the host machine, run ip rule add to (whatever entry address the miami server has) lookup main and ip route add (whatever the entry address of the airvpn server you want to exit from is) via (whatever the address of the systemd-nspawn container is). 6. Adjust the MTU of the inner VPN(the one where you want to exit from) to 1340 7. Start the inner VPN 8. Run ip rule show. Make sure that whatever ip rule that wiregaurd setup has a lower priority than the rule you entered in step 4. If you need more help, feel free to ask.

Yeah, same experience here. I keep going back to Eddie when new releases come around or the mood takes me and I tried it again a few days ago. Using Wireguard I got the same drop outs but with Openvpn it is still connected after three days now on both an S9 tablet and an S22 mobile, both Android 14. After figuring out a tasker profile to monitor Eddie's notification entry, which just altered a widget on screen, I then thought I'd try ways of restarting it if it dissapeard. Using Autoinput was my first thought but that is messy and not a reliable option in this instance. So I thought of intents which I have messed with but only by copying what others had done; never come up with my own stuff. I found out you can generate a package manifest using Android Studio which contains some or all of the intents the package listens for so am going to try that and see what it comes up with and then try some things. I'll post with updates if there are any!

Hi, recently I have found Eddie to be very stable on my Android devices using OpenVPN, not so much using Wireguard. For a while I've been using Tasker and the Autonotification add on to monitor whether Eddie was still running and alert me as such so that I could manually reconnect. I've recently been messing with intents in Tasker and learning Java (not a requirement but I was a programmer and is fun to me to learn such things) - this is a long learning curve for me since I'm not able to quickly learn stuff anymore. but I'll get there sometime. I was wondering if anyone had used intents to restart Eddie (log back in, reconnect to a server, whatever) and where to find out what intents are required to instruct Eddie to do things. I used to root my devices but not anymore since I can get to do whatever I want to using adb if I need to.

Hello! This looks like a relatively new Reddit policy, not specifically aimed at VPN, but at any IP address not assigned to residential ISPs. In this case access is granted but only after you have logged in. Just tested from all Japan servers, including Taphao, and we could access. After the login all Reddit is accessible, as far as we see. To maintain a robust anonymity layer in Reddit you need an anonymous e-mail address created with the protection of AirVPN and/or Tor, of course. Follow the instructions you have published in your screenshots to login (the login page does not block access from Tor or VPN or datacenters). Two years ago Reddit started to prevent users to post more than a comment every 10 minutes if the connection came from a datacenter IP address ("if you are accessing from an hosting provider" hints to any non-residential IP address). The behavior you report seems quite new and we confirm that it happens even from dedicated servers completely unrelated from our VPN activities. However the system is still coughing because, on the other hand, as @mazurka7 correctly wrote, some VPN servers are not subjected to this filter. Kind regards

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

They also reserve the right to kill anyone with a drone strike at the push of a button. No trial needed.

Not only the internet. They give themselves the right to invade any country in the world who doesn't play under their rules.