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I just noticed that with AirVPN you can open ports and create DNS servers. My intention is to set up a BIND DDNS server so that I can link the IPs of my computers at work, home, and my vacation house to a BIND DDNS server via AirVPN. I know there are existing DDNS providers, but they are often associated with illegal activities, and I don’t trust them. Is it possible to link a DNS with AirVPN so that I can run a BIND server and allow external connections? For example: pc1home.aivpndns.com, pcwork.aivpndns.com, pcvacationhouse.aivpndns.com.

Hello everyone, I have a weird problem with Eddie, I cannot connect to any server anymore. It worked for months on Windows 11 till now. From now on : Eddie is set to connect at startup, but it doesn't seem to try to connect to the servers. If I click on “Connect to a recommended server”, it doesn’t do anything at all, just as if I hadn't clicked. I cannot close Eddie, when I close I get the confirmation window, I click “Yes”, then the confirmation window close, but Eddie doesn’t close. I must use the Windows task manager to quit. I cannot change the settings, because if I try to change them, the setting window get stucked. I must then use the Windows task manager to quit. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, disabling my antivirus, using Malwarebyte scan, it doesn’t change anything. I tried to delete the Eddie folder in Appdata. Then, after lauching Eddie, it ask for my login, then Eddie is stucked in neverending “Checking login”. I tried disabling my ethernet connection in Windows network setting before launching Eddie. Of course Eddie can’t connect to the servers, but Eddie is no longer weirdly stucked and I can quit/change the settings properly. Eddie is again stucked if I launch it with internet connection. Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated. Logs : . 2023.12.04 21:12:55 - Eddie version: 2.21.8 / windows_x64, System: Windows, Name: Windows 10 Home, Version: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22631.0, Mono/.Net: v4.0.30319 . 2023.12.04 21:12:55 - Command line arguments (1): path="home" . 2023.12.04 21:12:55 - Raise system privileges . 2023.12.04 21:12:57 - Reading options from C:\Users\tmth\AppData\Local\Eddie\default.profile . 2023.12.04 21:12:57 - OpenVPN - Version: 2.5.5 - OpenSSL 1.1.1l 24 Aug 2021, LZO 2.10 (C:\Program Files\AirVPN\openvpn.exe) . 2023.12.04 21:12:57 - SSH - Version: plink 0.73 (C:\Program Files\AirVPN\plink.exe) . 2023.12.04 21:12:57 - SSL - Version: stunnel 5.56 (C:\Program Files\AirVPN\stunnel.exe) I 2023.12.04 21:12:58 - Ready

Pegasus, US unconnectable. Fails with AUTH_FAILURE. Unfortunately it is currently selected by the DNS as the preferred US server. Connecting directly to Pollux (US) worked for me: I copied the US config (certs embedded) and changed the IP address. Here's a log for Pegasus (from right now, MTU notifications are from my own edits): 2021-09-26 04:29:38 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'AES-256-CBC' but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'AES-256-CBC' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'AES-256-CBC' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'AES-256-CBC' to silence this warning. 2021-09-26 04:29:38 OpenVPN 2.5.3 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on Jun 17 2021 2021-09-26 04:29:38 Windows version 6.1 (Windows 7) 64bit 2021-09-26 04:29:38 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021, LZO 2.10 Enter Management Password: 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25343 2021-09-26 04:29:38 Need hold release from management interface, waiting... 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25343 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state on' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log all on' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'echo all on' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'bytecount 5' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold off' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release' 2021-09-26 04:29:38 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:38 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:38 WARNING: normally if you use --mssfix and/or --fragment, you should also set --tun-mtu 1500 (currently it is 1250) 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655778,RESOLVE,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:38 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:38 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->262144] S=[8192->262144] 2021-09-26 04:29:38 UDP link local: (not bound) 2021-09-26 04:29:38 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:38 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655778,WAIT,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:39 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655779,AUTH,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:39 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443, sid=83a14a89 9092e81f 2021-09-26 04:29:39 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=IT, ST=IT, L=Perugia, O=airvpn.org, CN=airvpn.org CA, emailAddress=info@airvpn.org 2021-09-26 04:29:39 VERIFY KU OK 2021-09-26 04:29:39 Validating certificate extended key usage 2021-09-26 04:29:39 ++ Certificate has EKU (str) TLS Web Server Authentication, expects TLS Web Server Authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:39 VERIFY EKU OK 2021-09-26 04:29:39 VERIFY OK: depth=0, C=IT, ST=IT, L=Perugia, O=airvpn.org, CN=Pegasus, emailAddress=info@airvpn.org 2021-09-26 04:29:39 WARNING: 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1372', remote='link-mtu 1558' 2021-09-26 04:29:39 WARNING: 'tun-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='tun-mtu 1250', remote='tun-mtu 1500' 2021-09-26 04:29:39 Control Channel: TLSv1.3, cipher TLSv1.3 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, peer certificate: 4096 bit RSA, signature: RSA-SHA512 2021-09-26 04:29:39 [Pegasus] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:40 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655780,GET_CONFIG,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:40 SENT CONTROL [Pegasus]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1) 2021-09-26 04:29:40 AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED 2021-09-26 04:29:40 SIGUSR1[soft,auth-failure] received, process restarting 2021-09-26 04:29:40 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655780,RECONNECTING,auth-failure,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:40 Restart pause, 5 second(s) 2021-09-26 04:29:45 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:45 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:45 WARNING: normally if you use --mssfix and/or --fragment, you should also set --tun-mtu 1500 (currently it is 1250) 2021-09-26 04:29:45 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:45 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->262144] S=[8192->262144] 2021-09-26 04:29:45 UDP link local: (not bound) 2021-09-26 04:29:45 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:45 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655785,WAIT,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:46 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655786,AUTH,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:46 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443, sid=807e834f 86f4a62b 2021-09-26 04:29:46 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=IT, ST=IT, L=Perugia, O=airvpn.org, CN=airvpn.org CA, emailAddress=info@airvpn.org 2021-09-26 04:29:46 VERIFY KU OK 2021-09-26 04:29:46 Validating certificate extended key usage 2021-09-26 04:29:46 ++ Certificate has EKU (str) TLS Web Server Authentication, expects TLS Web Server Authentication 2021-09-26 04:29:46 VERIFY EKU OK 2021-09-26 04:29:46 VERIFY OK: depth=0, C=IT, ST=IT, L=Perugia, O=airvpn.org, CN=Pegasus, emailAddress=info@airvpn.org 2021-09-26 04:29:46 WARNING: 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1372', remote='link-mtu 1558' 2021-09-26 04:29:46 WARNING: 'tun-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='tun-mtu 1250', remote='tun-mtu 1500' 2021-09-26 04:29:46 Control Channel: TLSv1.3, cipher TLSv1.3 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, peer certificate: 4096 bit RSA, signature: RSA-SHA512 2021-09-26 04:29:46 [Pegasus] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]199.249.230.16:443 2021-09-26 04:29:47 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655787,GET_CONFIG,,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:47 SENT CONTROL [Pegasus]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1) 2021-09-26 04:29:47 AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED 2021-09-26 04:29:47 SIGUSR1[soft,auth-failure] received, process restarting 2021-09-26 04:29:47 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655787,RECONNECTING,auth-failure,,,,, 2021-09-26 04:29:47 Restart pause, 5 second(s) 2021-09-26 04:29:51 SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting 2021-09-26 04:29:51 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1632655791,EXITING,init_instance,,,,, The server page shows Pegasus is chosen as the best server although Pegasus' stats show it has zero users and the drop happened a couple hours ago (Sunday 09:00 on the graph). Similar to my last post I propose that servers are ranked differently. Apparently this time an end-to-end test using OpenVPN is required since the server is reachable but it has got issues with authentication.

Hot off the press! Arstechnica 'VPN servers seized by Ukrainian authorities weren’t encrypted' Why did they wait almost 2 weeks? The post was published on July 9th. The blog post seems to rather be in full damage control mode than to admit how much of a failure it was that it apparently contained the single VPN certificate shared across all servers. (looks like I got it wrong read first reply) On top of that a technically incorrect explanation of when this acquired certificate can be successfully exploited. I don't wanna rant right now but will expand on my points when asked. I'm also curious whether AirVPN actually keeps all sensitive data in RAM as stated in the Torrentfreak article: Although I don't see that Windscribe had actually lied about any of their stuff (beyond omissions in current damage control), can we be sure AirVPN actually has all of the above implemented? Though I like how specific the response in the description. Also AMD's Zen CPUs are currently the only ones on the market (in x86 space fore sure) with actual RAM encryption. Having data on RAM disk wouldn't be enough for a prepared attacker due to technical possibility of extracting the data in a cold boot attack. Such an upgrade would not only take a while for the infrastructure and but be costly.

Many things have changed in korea. Can you review the idea of adding korea server? - SNI snooping censorship is only for individuals, doesnt apply for datacenters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Korea

Lately I get a lot of "netsh" errors, cannot connect to several servers (Canada).

I have noticed that AirVPN has had no presence in France for quite a few years now I recall a previous post by Staff explaining that they withdrew their French servers because of the legal framework on data retention, however many other VPNs such as Mullvad, Proton, TorGuard, etc operate French servers and that isn't a problem for them. Additionally I think OVH would be a great provider since their have presence in France, are a reliable hosting provider which I personally have used for a while, they have great DDoS protection for no extra charge, and OVH has spoken in the past about it's support of privacy rights. For this reason I think a new server in France is long overdue and hopefully can be opened soon.

https://offerup.com/ is blocking the Dallas server Ran. This is the message that shows up: "Error 1020 Ray ID: 4b48bc0d4d19c80c • 2019-03-08 23:54:29 UTC Access denied What happened?This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Cloudflare Ray ID: 4b48bc0d4d19c80c • Your IP: 199.249.230.27 • Performance & security by Cloudflare" 1. The AirVPN Route Checking tool shows "green" in all of the columns for the Ran server as well as all the other Dallas servers and almost all other servers. The Atik server is showing "red" in the "Ping" and "HTTP" columns. 2. I tried several other servers in Toronto and other Dallas servers and they connected just fine. 3. ipleak shows only airvpn ip addresses for both the IP & DNS address fields. 4. I checked the other steps listed in "Things to Try First" in the "Is a Website Blocked? Then Check This Guide First" topic and they all checked out okay. When do I get my bonus points?

IPv6 IS NOW WORKING AGAIN. 1. Does anyone have an IPv6 address with Lich? I can get one normally with other servers but not Lich. I've messaged support, they said (on December 11 or earlier) that the datacenter had one business day to reply to them about the problem and they confirmed issues with it. But they seem to be ignoring my responses. So do you have IPv6 with this server? 2. Why does IPLeak.com say the long, lat is 0 , 0? I mentioned that in the above mentioned support ticket and it was completely ignored. Dnsleaktest.com says unknown as the location and not United States or something.

Hi, is there any way of setting eddie up so that it will change severs for me automatically every hour or 3 hours or to a schedule that I choose? Thanks.

How do I manually change servers? Thank you.

I'm looking to run AIrVPN on my router as it supports OpenVPN. Since the VPN configured on the router will be fixed, I'm looking for a server that doesn't have too much packet loss, low ping and consistent. What server would you guys recommend for gaming which will also enhance matchmaking?

Hello, I am writing to request a new server or servers in Estonia. A server in Estonia would be a great addition, as Estonia has excellent online freedom. Please see the links below for more info. 1 2 3 4 5 6 What are your thoughts about my suggestion? Feel free to reply and/or answer the poll.

Just a short question to the admins here. I would like to use the AirVPN DNS servers on my VPN routers. The manuals (DD-WRT and Tomato) are referring to the Specs Page but I can't find them there anymore.

Well, I have siged up for another year! <accepting congratulations>....And I am paranoid.It seems to me the servers I usually connect to are about double the latency they used to be. These are Toronto and Vancouver servers....Why would my latency change?Of course my wireless (laptop) is much worse, but also much worse than beforeI noticed this around November of 2017Thoughts? Suggestions?Am I am being Kim Dotcom'd?No, I don't do a lot of unusual ...mostly gaming, watching videos...gone from 25ms to 70ms on average...Thanks,Mr. V

I normally use AirVPN with openvpn in my computer, with openresolv to allow openvpn to connect to the server then change the DNS so it is tunnelled through the VPN connection. The openvpn config file I downloaded specifies a country, not a particular server, so DNS resolution is needed initially to make the connection. However I am interested in putting the VPN inside a router instead, and I have been experimenting. Looking at the instructions for ddrwt and here: https://airvpn.org/topic/14378-how-can-i-get-vpn-servers-entry-ip-addresses/ it seems it will not be possible to continue using my existing per-country configuration, as I need to give a specific IP address, ie choose just one server (and edit the .ovpn file accordingly). At the moment, I am using an OpenNIC DNS server in parallel with the VPN one instead, but I'd rather not continue to do this. Am I right in thinking each query goes to both DNS servers (rather than using the second one only if the first doesn't return an IP address)? Is there a way to select a country or region, rather than a specific AirVPN server, in this situation? I want to continue using openvpn manually as I understand and trust this method. I am also more familiar with the command line (ssh into the router) than LEDE/OpenWRT, which is new to me.

Hi everyone ! Where are the servers you had in France ? do you plan to re-open them soon ? much appreciate ! thanks

Hello, I am having trouble setting up a Minecraft game server using AirVPN. I have used AirVPN's port forwarding service and successfully forwarded and opened up a port of my choice and selected the games local port of 25565. I checked this using canyouseeme.org to test this was the case, it was up. I booted up the server and found that i couldn't connected via the port / public exit IP and it just lead to a weird timing out on the ping and leading to a lack of connection for the server. I knew the server was up as i had a local connection to it which showed it was up. I wondered if there was an issue with packets getting lost / dropped so I did a tracert to see if i could see where the connection was going and that worked fine with no issues at all. Then I checked to see if there was anything going on with AIrVPN or maybe my internet provider was being overly strict so i changed to SSL applies caps or blocks lower ip ranges etc. Same result no connection, I tried multiple ways of setting it up and always got the same result of it timing out. Maybe it was my software so I disabled all firewalls / everything and tried it across multiple machines with fresh hardware and on different operating systems. Same issue nothing was working. Tried multiple ways and getting the local connection via ipconfig on my adapter and binding the IP to the minecraft server interface. Still nothing, tried changing the ports of the server interface still nothing. I gave dynamic DNS a go to see if i could circumvent this issue completely with it and still not working. I am really at a loss and have no clue how to fix this any help would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. Additional Details: - All internet works fine with/without airVpn. - Yes i am connected to a airvpn server and have tried multiple of their servers. - Yes I have restarted / shutdown pc's after installing to give it a "chance" - Yes the port is up and i can see its up via canyouseeme.org - Yes i gave time for the dynamic dns to change and update its entries. - I have tried three different operating systems including Linux. Windows server and desktop. - Connecting via Ethernet cable. - No problems connecting to airvpn servers. - College/University wifi.

So I have a decent amount of knowledge of networking, but I still lack some knowledge at some points. I'm wondering if it's possible more as a technically of understanding to use a cellphone for say an FTP server on mobile data. Normally, a computer that was behind a NAT Router on a landline connection you would simply forward port 21 or whatever port the FTP is using to the Local LAN IP 192.x.x.x and bam it works. On cellphones using mobile data for example T-Mobile inbound connections are blocked because the phone is behind a bunch of mobile complex NAT routing etc. That said, certain applications like Teamviewer for example (which allows remote support on your Android phone) still work much like an inbound connection. Using Teamviewer as an example, it appears this works because a connection Tunnel/Bridge occurs on Teamviewers servers. In other words let's say a person is working on your mobile phone from their home PC connected as landline connection. I've done this before, so what is happening is YOUR PC -> Connects To Teamviewers Server <- Cellphone Connects to Teamviewers Server which establishes a connection and Teamviewer is acting as a sort of proxy so to speak. Couldn't the same thing be done using AirVPN? I set my cellphone up with an FTP server for example hosting files on the phone, and then it connects to AirVPN's private server (you can use the port forwarding options) and on my PC far away I connect to the public WAN IP on the VPN which then goes to my phone. Would this work? Am I understanding how this works correctly or is there an easier way? I really appreciate the help, and I'm always trying to learn more about networking etc.

This is not really a problem nor complaint, per se, but more of an observation. The location listed in the "Eddie" interface is not necessarily where you pop out of the VPN tunnel. I was on Octans, presumably in Atlanta, GA, USA, however if I do an internet speed test, it picks up my location as being in Arizona! "Chameleon" really lives up to the name as it says "Dallas, TX," but instead I'm getting out in Los Angeles, California! As long as the speed is working well, it should be fine, but I think it would be better to have the Eddie list match the actual locations, rather than some probably historic one. Sometimes one wants to have the tunnel as close to the source website as possible - streaming a local television station, for example, that may not have the best bandwidth over longer distances. Being a few hundred, or a thousand or so miles off from where you think you are could make the difference.

Hey all, So I am trying to run my own server for friends to connect to. I have read as much material as possible but still couldn't have my minecraft server reachable by my friends, so i asked for AirVPN's help but they said everything was perfectly fine as far as they could see. I really have no idea what could be wrong: I use windows 10, I don't port forward from the router, I'm port forwarding using AirVPN's service, the local address and port match the server properties in the file server.properties, I give my friends both the address of my public I.P(the AirVPN server) and the DDNS server name and port number but methods make no difference, I even turn my firewall off to see if it makes a difference but alas for nought. Yet the server works when not using AirVPN, I know because I test it on canyouseeme.org. And yes I do use the TCP test in the port forwarding section of my client area but it will always say error '110 Time out'. But if anyone has any other suggestions on what I could do, or even where i could read up more please, please do tell me. I've been trying to do this now for months. So much thanks in advance if you can help me get this project to work.

I have subscribed so that I could attempt to host a minecraft server, as my other attempts had failed. Even following the specific AirVPN instructions have been unsuccessful. My situation: I live at an apartment complex, I am under the impression that the apartment complex I am at has a router they use to act as an ISP for the complex, because when i check what my external IP is on google, it is different than what my own personal router reports is my external. So port forwarding would not work as there is a second router or switch stopping the traffic for the server before it gets to my personal router. The regional ISP has stated they are not blocking the ports i would be forwarding. My current setup now that I am using AirVPN is that my server computer connects by ethernet to the wall, no router, and i have setup eddie, remote port forwarding, and the minecraft server to be what should be connectable from external IPs. Is this hosting even possible without creating a virtual LAN or working with the secondary routing system in place at the apartment complex? Thanks for any help.

I would like to see an AirVPN server on Mars since it is obvious no one would be able to geolocate the server and be totally anonymous to not only this planet but the Universe, since we assume we already know most of what the universe is. Ooops,a problem there cos we don't know what the universe is but scientists say they do anyway and thats ok cos they are allowed to change their minds. Well, since Faraday, Newton, & Einstein et al, the recent scientists can change their minds as much as they like. <deleted, reason: sterile ad personam attacks - Staff>

I'm using two AirVPN servers: Persei and Heze. According to the configuration tool and the server status pages, both of those servers are in Fremont, CA. If I go to www.ipleak.net or other IP information sites, Persei shows up in Fremont, but Heze shows up near Wichita, Kansas. Am I missing something, here? Where's Heze? https://ipleak.net/?q=46.21.151.106 From the Heze OVPN file: # -------------------------------------------------------- # Air VPN | https://airvpn.org | Thursday 27th of April 2017 03:54:03 PM# OpenVPN Client Configuration# AirVPN_US-Fremont-California_Heze_UDP-53# -------------------------------------------------------- clientdev tunproto udpremote 46.21.151.106 53....

Hello everyone, I am TheDarkOnyx. That aside, I am facing problems with connecting with SSL to any server, for that matter. In my case, my school has a hefty firewall that has DPI recently, and it has been effective. I have since been using STunnel and I am using SSL port 28439, and oddly enough, it has been resetting connection by peer by almost every single server available except the Dheneb server. Is there something I should fix? Thanks.