On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 3:03:49 PM UTC, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 01/11/2019 05:48 PM, seshu wrote: > > Chris, I recently got Nordvpn running on my 4.0.1 and I used their .deb > > package to install their app. > > > > The one thing I like about their app is that when it fires up it scans the > > hundreds of servers they have to identify the server that is best to > > connect to. The process that Qubes-vpn-support uses relies on the user > > manually deciding which of the hundreds plus servers to use right, and then > > creating a ln to that ovpn file? > > > > Do you think there could be a way to streamline or automate which ovpn file > > to use? > > > > Thanks! > > Its impossible to tell which servers for a given region a VPN provider > considers to be 'best'. Some providers like PIA allow you to specify a > region by domain name, and that domain name represents a bank of servers > from which a server is chosen at connection time; it appears to be a > standard load-balancing configuration. > > If you don't want to use one server IP all the time, you could add many > IPs to the conf file along with 'remote-random' which will choose one > randomly. Alternately, you could see if NordVPN has regional domain > names and use one of those in your conf. > > -- > > Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net > https://github.com/tasket > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886
Ok thanks. that makes sense. I'll look into that aspect. >From a security perspective, checking for leaks, etc. is there a particular >tool or technique you like to use? this idea of leaks is new to me so I want >to check the nordvpn setup I have now to see how it compares. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/492274b5-7a15-49d2-b1b6-9b6578365761%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
