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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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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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...

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does netbird run on wg on on ovpn as well? Maybe that's an option...

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not really an expert on VPN, but I believe solutions like Tailscale, Netbird, Pangolin all leverage the Wireguard protocol.

[–] FedX@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, WG is by far the best way to do this kind of networking.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

NetBird is Wireguard yes.