Wireguard is blocked in my country, so I no longer can use Tailscale or other Wireguard-based solutions. My home server is behind a NAT. What other ways of secure private connection can I use?
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- Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyzEnglish16 hours
Zerotier. They have their own protocol, and there’s a free tier that lets you connect up to ten machines to make a network.
Also possible to selfhost, although I haven’t done it.
- alienghic@slrpnk.netEnglish19 hours
Can you set your NAT to port forward a port to your ssh host?
I’m currently using yggdrasil to deal with this problem, though I’ve also used tor hidden services.
- Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
This is what I do. For best security practice, make sure to use public key authentication and disable password authentication so nobody can even try to guess your password.
- slabber@lemmy.mlEnglish13 hours
I have successfully setup trojan / trojan-go on my server. It uses port 443 and will return a standard website if the connection is not recognized as an authorized trojan-go client. As stealth as it can get.
- iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve been looking at NetBird.
Maybe others who’ve used it or know more can chime in on if this is a good idea or not?
- sandwichsaregood@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Sing-box is a VPN tool built to evade censorship https://github.com/SagerNet/sing-box . It is extremely resilient and stealthy.
See also, xray and v2ray, which are similar, but in my experience sing-box is a bit better documented (at least in English) and has better maintained client apps.
Setting any of these up can be complicated, but LLMs can get you pretty far if you have safe access.
- 2 days
Best solution is to organize revolution to kick out the fascist that censored the internet by protocol
- zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish24 hours
That’s an ideal solution. The best solution is what works immediately and within your capabilities.
- Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
The phrase “fun at parties” has been banned from my sight. I cast Quickened Spell: 1000 Downvotes
2 daysAmneziaWG is a Wireguard fork built against deep packet inspection, try that.
Neat, I might have to set this up for myself. It sounds like it could get around some of the VPN blocking I’ve seen while traveling through airports.
- 1 day
Tor Hidden Services, easy to set up on the server side, can be annoying on the client side but HTTP and SSH are fine. Can be a bit slow but IMHO still usable.
- hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish2 days
https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel seems like the obvious solution.
Or maybe OpenVPN over normal TLS on port 443.
You could try to run Wireguard on a different port which would be otherwise used by some very common service, maybe there’s some general exemption for port 21, 22, 53, 80, 443…
OpenVPN is my current method. Got it running on port 443 with user certificate authentication, and tls-crypt on top of that to completely mask the protocol from VPN detectors.
Also technically prevents DoS attacks, but that wasn’t my primary goal.
- 2 days
Does netbird run on wg on on ovpn as well? Maybe that’s an option…
- hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish2 days
I’m not really an expert on VPN, but I believe solutions like Tailscale, Netbird, Pangolin all leverage the Wireguard protocol.
OpenVPN in TCP mode wrapped around Stunnel. That’s the thing that works.
I have it set up to bypass VPN restrictions in some networks, but it also serves to bypass a lot more stuff if you know what you’re doing.
DPI will only see TLS traffic, and assume it’s HTTP. You can even try to fool it by modifying the packet headers, so dumb enough DPI will think you’re connecting to the site you choose.
- 15 hours
We have had success with this on port 443 and it appears to do a good job on networks that only allow browsing. Usual problems with TCP based VPN still apply.
Self hosted networking! Legitimately one of my favourite topics
You won’t get around the requirement of a publicly reachable endpoint. That can either be a small server with a public ip or dynamic DNS to your home with port forwarding for the VPN.
A classic option is OpenVPN. You can run it on Port 443 in TCP mode and while it won’t be performant, it has a better chance of bypassing most simple blocks
Other than that I’m a fan of completely decentralized mesh VPNs.
The one I use and am most familiar with is Yggdrasil. Connections can be established over TCP, TLS or QUIC on any port you want.
I’ve written a somewhat lengthy comment under this post. One advantage to Yggdrasil would be its existing public network. If you can firewall of your home lab to the point where joining the public network doesn’t expose a security risk to your local network, you could use that to transport your traffic instead of having your own public node or port forwarding.The same post also mentions Anywherelan, it’s intended to have better NAT handling out of the box by using community nodes.
Then there’s also EasyTier mentioned at the bottom, it is a Chinese project and those tend to have good censorship resistance.
Finally I’ll mention Nebula, it requires at least one coordination server but might also be an option
