Submitted 6 months ago by mfat@lemdro.id to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Where I live wireguard and openvpn are completely blocked and my isp doesn’t provide a public ip.
Tailsclale and cloudflare tunnels don’t work either.
Is there a last resort method for accessing my home server (a mini pc running openwrt and docker).
Thanks!
Sounds like your government is fairly strict on what you can do. I would suggest Tor but that may be illegal. I would be careful not to do anything that could jeopardize your safety.
Can you ssh out? You could setup a VPS somewhere and use remote port forwarding to tunnel back home.
ssh -R 80:localhost:80 user@vps # forward HTTP traffic from remote host to the local host
You can even run ssh over an ssh tunnel for inceptiony goodness.
ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 user@vps # your home system ssh --port 2222 homeuser@vps # From your remote system
Yes I can SSH to my US vps. I’ll give this a try thank you.
SSH port forwarding is quite hand. You can have SSH setup a SOCKS proxy that you can use to send your browser traffic through the tunnel as well.
have you heard of sshuttle?
Interesting - I had not. It was ages ago I was doing something like what I posted (well before that project ever got started) and it worked “well enough” for what I was doing at the time. Usually I’d run a SOCKS proxy on that second SSH line (-D 4444) and just point my browser at localhost:4444 to route everything home (or use foxyproxy to only route some traffic home).
Looks like sshuttle may have better performance though and provide similar functionality.
Find a cheap hosting solution that provides a fixed IP address, then host your own VPN or proxy server there.
To add on to this answer:
If they’re blocking Wireguard/OpenVPN at the protocol level, there may not be anything you can do (running on a different port, etc).
If HTTPS works, between a cloud VPS and your home connection, you might be able to setup Nginx + VPN-WS on your cloud host to make a websocket-based VPN.
I haven’t tried this, but it looks solid enough. Just make sure you configure Nginx correctly for authentication since it doesn’t do that on its own (intentionally since most web servers already have a solid authentication framework / plugin system).
This is the case unfortunately. They are blocked as protocol level.
Wireguard doesn’t obfuscate its traffic so non-standard ports may not help depending on how sophisticated the blocking is (they could recognize the protocol and block your traffic regardless of port).
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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Have you tried shadowsocks.org? I don’t have any experience with it, but heard it is good at masquerading your traffic and making it almost impossible for your ISP to block it
Shadowsocks is deprecated and doesn’t work anymore.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months ago
Tor's obfs4 protocol is pretty difficult to block, and it has some other transports that are options if obfs4 is unusable in a heavy censorship regime. This page is a good overview of how to start; with the right transport and bridge setup it'll be extremely difficult for your ISP to prevent you having access.
You could make your home server a securely-accessed onion site and connect to a remote-access-via-web service you're running there. That part might be a little challenging (and this process overall may be overkill) but it'd be very challenging for them to block it, I think, so if you've tried some things and had no luck, that might be the way to do it.
Be careful obviously
mfat@lemdro.id 6 months ago
Tour only works with Snowflake bridges and the speed is very low.