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0 pointsmcbridematt11y ago0 comments

My own VPN instances have been shot down within a couple of days of use, definitely IPS-style behavior.

I can't comment on commercial providers, but the capability to autoblock common VPN protocols is definitely there.

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olalonde11y ago· 1 in thread

Interesting, I didn't know they did that. I've been running my own VPN as well for a couple of years without problem. Is it possible you were running Tor on your server or something else got you blocked (some AWS IPs seem to get blocked for no apparent reason)?

mcbridemattOP11y ago

No, just OpenVPN, and from the searching I did at the time, this is a well known problem.

These days I just tunnel over SSH or even remote desktop into a remote server.

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