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@tOjO Thank you very much. Can you please open a ticket? Since we do not have a rational explanation on how the quick connection ends up to Latvia, we would need to know which country you connect from (and optionally which country ipleak.net detects you're in). Does bluetit.rc have any "country" directive? Kind regards

@kgursu Hello! We're glad to know it and we apologize again for the issue. We do not store and/or come to know our customers' credit card data, we're sorry. You should check manually. If you paid via 2Checkout you should also receive an e-mail from 2Checkout, pertaining to the refund, on the inbox of the e-mail address you gave them. Note that between our refund order and 2Checkout actual refund delivery action 2 business days may pass. Kind regards

@tOjO Hello and thank you! We have an explanation for the reported problem which you resolved by modifying raspi-config to wait for network at bootstrap. If raspi-config is not configured to wait for the network to be up, it forces systemd network-online service not to wait for it. Therefore, the target for systemd is reached (systemd assumes that network is up) and Bluetit is launched, but in reality the network is not yet up. Your solution (which, we notice, must be applied to OSMC too) is correct and probably the cleanest one. Then Bluetit probably retrieves the "manifest" file from the local storage as it must do when it can't reach bootstrap servers and a local copy of the "manifest" file is available,. The claim that the manifest is downloaded remotely is just a logging glitch: this issue is still under investigation by the way. What server selection type (quick - server pool - country - continent) do you enforce? Also feel free to send us your bluetit.rc file (wipe out sensitive data first). Kind regards AirVPN Support Team

Hello! This is an horrid bug affecting some very old Eddie version, thank you for having been a customer for years. The bug has been fixed, please upgrade to Eddie latest release at your earliest convenience. We do understand that it's an extremely annoying bug, but we assure you that our servers do NOT send that banner: it's cached in Eddie (therefore, as an alternative solution you can delete Eddie profile file, but an upgrade is recommended). Kind regards

Hello! We're terribly sorry, we see that we have added a mistake over a mistake. We have fixed your account plan now, with a brand new three years plan. Feel free to confirm that you have received your refund and that your account has a valid three years subscription. Kind regards

Hello! The mentioned policy restricts access to: users included in airvpn group and root user. The installer creates the group and optionally creates an airvpn user and put it inside that group. Make sure to run Goldcrest from the proper user. If you want to run it from other user(s), have a superuser add such user(s) to the group airvpn https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-user-to-group-in-linux/ Kind regards

@tOjO Hello! We're glad to know that the problem is resolved. However, can you please send us Bluetit log taken just after the problem has occurred (login failure at bootstrap)? We can't understand how Bluetit could download the "manifest file" (according to the log) if you had no connectivity. In such a case Bluetit should read the last available "manifest" file from the local storage, and print the fact on the log. sudo journalctl | grep bluetit Thank you in advance. Kind regards

Hello! This is incorrect, Tor Browser has been protecting you against this attack since years ago. Currently, Brave and Firefox are quite effective, according to the paper itself. However, the author considers Firefox ability to make the attack fail as a side effect of a bug. The attack itself is quite well known, although in the recent past it focused on big LSOs spread throughout various HDD locations and not trivially erasable by the average user to be more effective, because Flash was used by the majority of users. Kind regards

Hello! Just use Brave, Firefox or the Tor Browser (Tor browser appears as the best choice): https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/21940/will-tor-block-favicons-by-default EDIT: also avoid to browse via Thunderbird. See also the previous message. Kind regards

Hello! Well, saying that favicons are "undeletable" is a tiny overstatement. They are not written once and for all in a PROM. 😋 Check where your browser keeps favicons and delete them, when it's not possible to reject them trivially in browser's settings. For example, latest Firefox releases can't be configured to not to ask for favicons (in the past, that was possible). Firefox and Thunderbird keep an SQLite db for them in your profile. For example: $ find ~ -type f -name '*avicon*' /home/myuser/.mozilla/firefox/blabla.default-release/favicons.sqlite /home/myuser/.mozilla/firefox/blabla.default-release/favicons.sqlite.wipemeoutbeforeyougogo /home/myuser/.mozilla/firefox/blabla.default-release/favicons.sqlite-wal /home/myuser/.thunderbird/blabla.default/favicons.sqlite /home/myuser/.thunderbird/blabla.default/favicons.sqlite-wal But check the cache too just in case (and incidentally remember that Tor browser does NOT block favicons and that Firefox actually issues requests to re-fetch favicons that are already present in the cache.) to be clearer, currently you are already protected against favicons based tracking & fingerprinting if you run Firefox or the Tor browser https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/21940/will-tor-block-favicons-by-default While Firefox and Thunderbird don't run, rename those files for your tests, nuke the cache, and you'll see that nothing breaks except favicons (but verify by yourself). You can also inspect the db to check more thoroughly, and you can to keep a script that "takes care" of them whenever you need it. A quick and dirty solution is also creating a new account, do what you need to do in single or selected web sites (with Tor browser or anyway without allowing scripts if necessary, and following identity separation and any other good practice), and wipe it out after usage. Kind regards

Hello! We are almost ready to publish a public beta version, it's a matter of days. Kind regards

@Unito_ Windows 7 has been abandoned since quite some time: mainstream support ended on January 13, 2015, while extended support ended on January 14, 2020. OpenVPN 2.5 does not have anymore a dedicated installer for Win 7. Download the proper OpenVPN 2.4.10 package for Windows 7, again in https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ and repeat the procedure. Also consider seriously to upgrade to some supported system. Kind regards

@nocturnaltabernacle Hello and thanks! The SERVFAIL error message suggests that Google infrastructure could not contact airvpn.org authoritative server. It seems it was a short period problem. Please feel free to warn us if you see it re-occurring. Kind regards

$ drill @8.8.8.8 airvpn.org ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 32899 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; airvpn.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: airvpn.org. 347 IN A 5.196.64.52 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ;; Query time: 17 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8 ;; WHEN: Sat Feb 13 10:59:57 2021 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 44

Hello! Please try the following: make sure to download the correct package for your system here: https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ make sure you can gain administrator privileges uninstall OpenVPN, disable any antivirus/antimalware/anti* and all that jazz and reboot the system (remember to re-enable them later) install OpenVPN and make sure to authorize drivers installation If the driver installation still fails, you can be sure that the problem is not Edde related. Check carefully the error message you get during installation and report it. Kind regards

@Tazhill Thanks! In order to understand the cause of the issue we need to know whether the problem occurs when some network interface has IPv6 disabled (problem is then expected and explained) or not (problem is then unexpected). The system report will show that. We also ask you to generate the system report while the system is still connected to the VPN (thanks to IPv6 layer block), so that we can see even the properties of the tun virtual network interface used by OpenVPN. Kind regards

@grammarye Hello! Please try with WantedBy= and combine udev and systemd, as detailed here: https://superuser.com/questions/851846/how-to-write-a-systemd-service-that-depends-on-a-device-being-present A much simpler solution, worth a test, is reported here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360214/systemd-service-run-when-network-interface-up-down-eth0 Kind regards

Hello! There is no way to do that, but it's irrelevant. Just make sure that the port does not exist on the devices where you don't want to receive packets. Kind regards

@Aronos Hello! By disabling IPv6 in your Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi you made Eddie and OpenVPN unable to connect. The IPv6 layer combo box has not been set to "Block", according to the system report you kindly included. We see that you set "Internet protocol for connection" to "IPv4 only", but that's a different thing. Please open "Preferences" > "Networking" window and set the "IPv6 layer" combo box to "Block", then click "Save" and try again. Alternatively, make sure that IPv6 is enabled in your network interfaces. Kind regards

@Tazhill Hello! Are you 100% sure that your system as well as all network interfaces have IPv6 enabled? If so, can you open a ticket to investigate the matter more thoroughly? Please include a system report ("Logs" > LIFE BELT icon > copy all icon > paste into your message) generated while the system is still connected successfully thanks to the "blocked" IPv6 layer. Kind regards

Hello! Yes, that's plausible. The outcome we and our customers had with Wireguard can have been capped by server bandwidth availability (which may become more significant with WIreeguard than OpenVPN, according to your report) and other factors. Anyway it's a real world/real life test performed between different providers and on equal ground with OpenVPN. On the other end, your OpenVPN findings are low when compared to our customers' and ours.. With weaker CPUs (old i7) our clients achieve much higher performance than yours, up to 700 Mbit/s, with a single instance, while on the server side, with a slightly weaker CPU than yours (but maybe stronger on a per.-core basis, which is crucial with OpenVPN), we could manage to beat 700 Mbit/s on a single OpenVPN daemon connected to about 200 clients. Another factor that comes to mind is the SSL library, which you don't need to worry about when you run Wireguard, but which is vital for OpenVPN performance. Did you compile the library with high optimization for your own server? We recommend OpenSSL currently in x86-64 systems, because it is now remarkably faster than mbedTLS which lacks asm. NOTE: we have never tested LibreSSL and we don't know whether it's a pain to link OpenPVN against LibreSSL. If you need to beat the current performance you report, on top of OpenVPN and OpenSSL optimizations for your system when you build them, the most obvious way is running multiple instances, each one with a different CPU affinity. With the large cores amount you have, you can even aim to saturate your 10 Gbit/s line. Currently our VPN servers Xuange and Ain work around 2-3 Gbit/s with a very low load (around 11 on 32 "CPU" systems). Kind regards

Hello! The actual official cause is lack of IPv6 support either at system level or in any of the network interfaces, including the tun/tap one. It has been verified several times. Should you find cases for which IPv6 layer needs a block inside Eddie preferences even when IPv6 is fully supported by the system and is enabled on all network interfaces, including TAP-Windows or wintun, please report to Clodo. Kind regards

Yes I know this, but can you tell Eddie to only activate Network Lock when connected to VPN, and disconnect when disconnected? Hello! No, Network Lock needs activation BEFORE a VPN connection starts. Anyway Eddie allows "events", check "Preferences" > "Events". You can have a command/script when each event takes place. For security reasons, events linked items are NOT launched with root privileges, so if you need some operation needing root privileges you need take care yourself of it. Only with an operator's input, by default. If you order a disconnection, Eddie will remain disconnected. But if the connection is lost for any reason other than explicit operator's order, Eddie will try to re-connect continuously in any case. You can modify this behavior only through events. For example, if you define an event at VPN disconnection that kills Eddie itself, you will have an approximation of what you want, i.e. "tell Eddie to disconnect when disconnected". However, if you kill Eddie, make sure to reset firewall rules too, because Eddie might fail to restore previous firewall rules (signal handling needs some improvement). You will need to gain root privileges in your script in order to kill Eddie backend and manipulate firewall rules. Kind regards

Hello! && means the logical and in various shell languages, bash (Bourne Again Shell) included, therefore: if (and only if) a command (in this case sleep) is executed and exits successfully, then the command following && will be executed too. This is a short-circuit evaluation. About sleep, enter the following command in a terminal man sleep for more information. In our previous messages we never talked about auto running Eddie. Please re-read at your convenience. You can tell Eddie to activate Network Lock or not when Eddie itself is launched. You can tell Eddie to connect to some VPN server at startup. Kind regards

@Terry Stanford Hello! If you run Eddie GUI, you can configure Eddie to activate Network Lock at startup, check "Activate Network Lock at start" in "Preferences" windows. You can also configure Eddie to connect when it is launched. If you run Eddie CLI, in a screen or tmux session run something like "sleep n && eddie-cli <options here>" where n is in seconds. Kind regards