submitted 1 year ago by alsiniz@lemmy.world to c/196

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Blahaj.zone has been blocked by ISPs in the UAE probably for being too queer.

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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First of all, don’t use CentOS, it’s 2023 (and EOL)

Second of all, you can abuse the AWS free tier to host your VPN since they assign a dynamic IP for all the ec2 instances, so turning it off and on again gives you a new IP.

Also, don’t use OpenVPN, use WireGuard.

EDIT: Additionally, I believe that when they notice all traffic originating from your IP is going to a single IP somewhere else in the world it’s automatically marked as a VPN and then blocked. You should try running a split configuration where traffic to lemmy.blahaj.zone (23.20.240.121/32, 54.81.97.116/32) is routed through your VPN and everything else leaves as usual.

[-] alsiniz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The OpenVPN project was many years ago on CentOS, I haven’t dabbled in Linux distros for many years now and have no idea what distro would be ideal this kind of project today.

Duly noted about WireGuard! If they have a windows client that supports split tunnelling then I am definitely going to try AWS + WireGuard. Will look into it when I’m home.

Thank you for the advice!