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Hello! We're very glad to inform you that four new 1 Gbit/s servers located in the Netherlands are available: Dorsum, Erakis, Grafias, Keid. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers, while if you use the OpenVPN 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, 2018 UDP and TCP. Just like every other Air server, Dorsum, Erakis, Grafias and Keid support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Team

openoffice is free right? http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/5688510/Open_Office_3.2.1_-_[Latest][2010]_-_[GuruFuel] Hello! Correct (technically it is open source, not free, and freely redistributable). It is not developed anymore, if you're looking for a free and open source office suite you might like LibreOffice. We'll perform the tests from Librae and Andromedae and update the thread accordingly. Kind regards

@vpn78 Please note that we are not going to test torrents or magnet links pointing to non-freely sharable contents. Please provide a magnet link or a link to a torrent file pointing to freely sharable content. Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to know that the problem is solved. 1) That's useful when you wish to connect OpenVPN over a proxy. For example, in case you are behind a corporate proxy, or if you wish to connect OpenVPN over some proxy such as a TOR proxy. Leave it to "None" for direct OpenVPN connections. 2) No purpose, it is a remnant of older client versions. 3) Yes, it's ok. That option is useful if the Air client fails to detect OpenVPN presence in "non-standard" installations, you can tell it where it can find OpenVPN. The answers to the FAQ may be important to start learning and using all the AirVPN features: https://airvpn.org/forum/24-frequently-asked-questions You might also like to have a look at the "How-To" section of the forums. Also, do not hesitate to search the forum, there's a search function and a powerful advanced search function (look at the upper right corner of the web site). Kind regards

Hello, unfortunately the article is technically so unclear and inaccurate that nothing specific can be said. The definition of Perfect Forward Secrecy implies that a session key can't be derived by any previous key. In AirVPN this is achieved through DHE or ECDHE keying in the web site (TLS up to 1.2, if the browser supports it) and through DHE in OpenVPN (TLS). Kind regards

Hello, can you please publish a magnet link or a link to a torrent file pointing to freely sharable content, so that we can try to reproduce the issue? Kind regards

Hello, from your last logs: 10/10/2013 - 5:50 AM SIGTERM received, sending exit notification to peer OpenVPN receives a signal to terminate. It does not seem a RST packet (which would be logged with SIGTERM hard), it looks like a system break, can you please make sure that you do not shut down OpenVPN and/or that no program such as antivirus is interfering? We're quite sure that it's not a problem on our side. Kind regards

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In this forum, the community posts suggestions about projects which would deserve a support (typically monetary support). One topic per project. Projects must be compatible with AirVPN Mission: https://airvpn.org/mission . If projects are based on software, the software must be free and open source. In order to achieve total transparency, we would like to tie this project to AirVPN promotion but at the same time we wish that it is handled by the community to guarantee that it is a real and impartial work. Therefore we aim to build a staff of moderators that don't work with AirVPN Staff and can manage and decide how to distribute the funding availability that AirVPN service can allocate to no-profit projects. EDIT: until now it has not been possible to build a staff of independent moderators. As a consequence, it's the whole community that proposes projects. Anyone can do that. Then, candidate projects are periodically voted by the whole community (only persons writing in the forum are allowed to vote). The typical poll period is 1-2 months, which can vary according to our funds allocation and availability. The supporting funds are delivered to the winning project. Already funded projects can't be proposed again at least for 1 year. Regularly or periodically funded projects can't be proposed.

Hello! In which server(s) does the problem occur? Kind regards

Hello! Can you please make sure that you downloaded the correction version for your Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)? Also, try to delete the .XML configuration file (you can see where it is located from the logs, if the client crashes only after the login). To access the logs please right-click on the Air dock icon and select "Logs". Kind regards

Hello! Apparently you did not paste all the files generated by the Configuration Generator in your command line current working directory, in particular plink.exe, can you please check? Kind regards

@Sixer, does the issue occur to you on Canada servers as well? Can you please try? Additionally, can you please give us a magnet link, or point us to a torrent, pointing to freely sharable contents, so that we can test (from Librae and Sirius, right)? Kind regards

Hello! We're sorry, Tunnelblick can't be used to connect OpenVPN over SSH or SSL. You need to run stunnel first from one shell, and then OpenVPN from another, please see the instructions. Adding an additional SSL or SSH layer is an option we introduced for special cases, i.e. when OpenVPN connections are disrupted, as it happens in China. In every other case it should be avoided because it does not add security and hits performance. Kind regards

Hello, we have seen that some PeerGuardian blocklists block DHT bootstrapping. If you have an empty DHT nodes table (or a table with all inactive nodes- for example, in uTorrent, dht.dat), you can't bootstrap, can you please check, just in case? Kind regards

No, I agree. It's just that BC has not grown enough so that it is useful for normal people yet. Then let's become not normal! Kind regards

Hello, do you mean that your client does not support DHT? Kind regards

Hello! No. No. However, remotely forwarded ports are kept in the database, otherwise it would be impossible to reserve them to the appropriate accounts and dynamically forward them according to the server the customer's client connects to. Ports are deleted when the user un-forward them from the control panel. By default no port is remotely forwarded. The database is not on the web site servers. The current e-mail address is stored (on the db servers, not on the web site servers). This is essential to guarantee some services such as password reset, but a user is not forced to associate a real e-mail address to an account. Of course the best solution is picking an e-mail address that can't be exploited to disclose an identity. No. No. Remotely forwarded ports, if not deleted, can indeed compromise privacy under certain conditions. Even if deleted, they can expose the customer to correlation attacks, if a customer forwards them both on the VPN and on his/her system physical network interface(s) or router(s) etc (as clearly underlined in the FAQ). Before we can answer completely, we need that you elaborate your question. In particular, what crimes in which legal framework would you commit in this hypothetical scenario, which government and which force do you refer to? As clearly stated in the Terms of Service, a direct or indirect violation of any fundamental right (as enshrined in the ECHR) and some other acts (described in ToS art. 4) are a violation of our Terms of Service, REGARDLESS of the fact that the infringement is a crime or not according to the legal framework of the country which the customer infringes the ECHR from. On the other hand, a fact that is considered a crime according to some out of jurisdiction country legal framework has no relevance for us/is not our concern, since we (quite obviously) do not recognize the authority of any entity or the validity of any law that are out of jurisdiction. That matter will have to be faced by that country authorities without any cooperation from Air owners. Kind regards

Hello! Please see here (whole post, do not stop to first half): https://airvpn.org/topic/9787-the-pros-and-the-cons/?p=11501 Kind regards

Hello! The connection to the VPN server is very unstable: 10/8/2013 - 2:48 PM [server] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting Can you please try different servers and different ports? In particular, test port 53 UDP and 80 TCP. In order to change connection port from the Air client, please click the "Modes" tab after you have picked a server, select a port/protocol and click "Enter". Check that tunneling works properly by browsing to airvpn.org and checking the central bottom box (it must be green). Also, please upgrade at your convenience to OpenVPN 2.3.2 (you can find the new package with client 1.9 and OpenVPN 2.3.2 here: https://airvpn.org/windows). Kind regards

Hello, ok, it's something 'worse' than a DNS issue, it seems that your system is not tunneling traffic or is not connected to the VPN at all. Please send us at your convenience the OpenVPN logs of an alleged connection. If you run the Air client for Win8, after you have tried a connection to a VPN server, please right-click on the Air dock icon, select "Logs", click "Copy to clipboard" and paste into your message. Kind regards

Hello! Yes, and re-tries to connect, but of course you might prefer to set up your system to prevent any leak in case of unexpected VPN disconnection. There are many guides to do that, on the How-To section and on the forum, from firewall rules and scripts to configure firewalls, to simple 30-seconds-solutions. If you need some guidance, do not hesitate to ask. Kind regards

Hello, well, not really: VPN 1 knows your real IP address but receives and sends totally encrypted traffic to/from a single end-point. VPN 2 can see your traffic (if not encrypted end-to-end) but does not know neither your identity (well, at least with services which accept Bitcoin etc.) nor your real IP address. Or vice-versa, of course. This increases the anonymity layer strength, no doubts. However, remember that you are partitioning trust between two parties only, which can know each other. With the addition of TOR, you not only perform partition of trust with 4 parties, but you also establish new circuits, so that the parties are not known in advance, and each party ignores at least one other party (for example, with TOR over VPN: VPN server does not know TOR relay and TOR exit-node; TOR exit-node does not know VPN server and TOR entry, etc.). Therefore, once again everything goes down to the basic questions: who can your adversary be? What is the value of your information, in terms of resources that an adversary can reasonably be ready to spend to disclose your identity? True, this depends on which country you live in. If TOR usage triggers investigations, maybe it's better to try TOR over VPN. Kind regards

Hello! It's a false positive, anyway you are not forced to use the Air client for Windows to connect to our services. You can connect via OpenVPN or any OpenVPN GUI/wrapper. The Configuration Generator can generate all you need (certificates, key, configuration) to run them to connect to our servers. Kind regards