Re: strange problems with some gentoo sites as seen from Russia

On 5/19/26 2:33 AM, Alexey Sokolov wrote:
> 19.05.2026 02:19, Eli Schwartz пишет:
>> A self-hosted VPN is also useful for connecting to your work intranet,
>> since inside the work's own self-hosted VPN, you are in practice
>> "inside" the work intranet. Working-from-home might need this.
>>
>> Funnily enough, no VPN companies advertise this intranet use case.
> That's because they don't usually provide such services. Why advertise
> what they don't do?
>
> Normally this use case requires the work to host their VPN server. For a
> separate VPN company to do this, they'd need to route their clients in
> some other way than just to internet through their servers.
>
> There are some VPN companies which do this though, but it's not as common.

My problem is that I don't trust any ISP.  My previous ISP was sharing 
info with others about customer traffic without any legal orders to do 
so.  I don't recall how that was discovered but it was a massive thing.  
They were not alone tho as a lot of ISPs do that. After all, for the 
Govt, either share data or we shut you down or some other threat.  Sure, 
they can fight it in court but in the meantime, they down until a court 
reverses the order, even if the original order is illegal.

What gets me tho, most all VPNs does the same thing, even use the same 
software quite often.  People say one is bad but the one they use is the 
only good one, sometimes with a financial interest in the claim as 
well.  Given almost all of them work the same way, there really isn't 
one that is that much better than the other except maybe for customer 
service.  That would likely be the biggest difference.  I've had to 
reach out to customer service a few times with mine.  It's not the 
fastest response but it is pretty good and they are very helpful.  Thing 
is, I don't need it much once I got it set up and working.

I do want to tackle the tunnel thing one day tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)