Re: How to hide the number of connections to the server?
Gert Doering <[email protected]>
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hi,
On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 10:36:31AM +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> Is there a way to hide the number of connections to a server? Can an intermediate server do this? Instead of connecting directly to the final server, people connect to an intermediate server and this intermediate server sends requests to the final server!
Not really, unless that intermediate server sets up a tunnel, and puts
all client connection *into* that tunnel. Then an outside observer would
only see "one connection" - but this has the risk of breaking in interesting
ways, and also tunnel-in-tunnel tends to have bad performance.
gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected]
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