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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.

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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!

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
 

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".

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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
 

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
 

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
 

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

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).

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Hello!

It does. End-to-end encryption ensures data integrity and confidentiality between you and the recipient. End-to-end encryption must be used, properly and correctly, no matter what (with or without VPN, with or without Tor...).

By adding AirVPN you enhance your privacy as nobody in the middle (including your ISP) comes to know that you and your recipient are communicating with each other (if necessary, you may hide your identity to your recipient too). As the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out, knowing who communicates with whom is a sensitive information which can be used against citizens' privacy even when the communication's content is encrypted. In this peculiar sense, privacy enhancement is also a security enhancement.
 
In this specific case the AirVPN additional protection may or may not be necessary, according to your threat model. Let's imagine an hard case: your threat model includes an adversary which systemically wiretaps your lines. When this happens, hiding to that adversary the location of where you're uploading important amount of data is a layer of protection in itself: it may be a very good thing, and indeed a security feature, to prevent your adversary to know which datacenter you rely to store your data and so on, even when everything is encrypted. This is a real security enhancement (you cancel the knowledge of a crucial access point from the attack surface): even if the adversary can't decrypt your data, it can either destroy them, make the machine where they are stored inaccessible, or further encrypt them to ask for a ransom, if it comes to know their location and cracks the access system.
 
Avoid it whenenver possible, but there are some cases where it comes in handy. Imagine that you have to cross the borders of a country with questionable practices towards foreign citizens and you want to avoid a compulsory, time-consuming and stressful analysis of your mobile devices or laptop (with the obligation to provide the decryption password, otherwise you will be charged as a criminal). To avoid this hugely stressful and time-consuming action, the usual solution is to upload the complete device image (heavily encrypted of course) to a service that you know you can access from abroad, and download and restore the image well after you have crossed the border. So you can cross the border with a dummy phone/tablet/laptop completely empty of any of your sensitive data, with just a few apps to make the inspection and intrusion quick and painless, or with no device at all, and then buy a new one and restore the image you have stored on some globally accessible server (of course, some passwords must necessarily remain stored in your mind).

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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
 

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
 

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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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

Tested. The portable and AppImage versions of 2.24.2 both have the same issue.

Hello!

Please test Eddie 2.24: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/57401-eddie-desktop-224-beta-released/

Eddie features support with proper DNS management for every systemd-resolved (a ramshackle systemd component that would have the ambition to offer name resolution to applications) mode from version 2.23.2. Previous versions do not handle correctly a specific systemd-resolved working mode which will cause DNS leaks. If you're running some older Eddie version, including the current stable release, and your Mint has systemd-resolved running and working in on-link mode bypassing /etc/resolv.conf, we may have a rational explanation of the situation. However, the discrepancy between https://ipleak.net and the web site you mention remains unexplained.

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According to this definition there is no censorship at all anywhere enforced by governments, not in North Korea, not in France, not in China...

Please note that your definition is pure fantasy, if not insulting. Censorship is exactly suppression of speech, public communication, or other information subversive of the "common good", or against a given narrative, by law or other means of enforcement. The fact that censorship is enforced by law or by a government body does not make it less censorship. Furthermore, historically censorship was an exclusive matter of some central authority (the first well documented case is maybe the censorship rules to preserve the Athenian youth, infringed by Socrates, for which he was put to death, although the etymology comes from the Roman Office of Censor which had the duty to regulate on citizens' moral practices) and today censorship by governments is predominant.  Even In modern times censorship through laws has been and is predominant and pervasive according to Britannica and many academic researches.

Then you can discuss ad nauseam whether censorship by law is "right" or "wrong", whether France's censorship is "better" than China's censorship, but you can't change the definition of censorship, otherwise this discussion will become delirious.

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@JackParsons

Hello!

Eddie 2.13.6 should run on your system. To download it, on the Linux download page please select "Other versions", click "2.13.6" and the download page will point to that version. Before installing Eddie 2.13.6 please make sure to delete the configuration file (default.xml in older Eddie versions, default.profile in newer version) to avoid incompatibilities of the configuration file due to a downgrade.

If even Eddie 2.13.6 can't run on your system, then you could prepare a configuration file compatible with your OpenVPN 2.3.2: in the Configuration Generator turn the "Advanced" switch on set the "OpenVPN profile" combo box to "2.4" select a connection with OpenVPN to entry-IP address ONE (this is essential to avoid tls-crypt, unsupported by 2.3) download and use the configuration file as usual Please consider anyway to upgrade your system for security reasons.

Kind regards

 

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
 

Latvia

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