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Piracy in Mexico. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I'm about to visit Mexico for 3 weeks. Currently in my country, I can download torrents and other stuff without VPN. Is it the same over there as well? I'd be using Wi-Fi over there.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Why don't you access your home computer over VPN from Mexico, manage your transfers on that machine per usual, and just pull whatever you need in Mexico directly from your home machine via your VPN? That way you can continue to torrent and seed without burdening someone else's connection.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tailscale is trivial for this.
Free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just install a VPN server on your computer or router. That's all you need unless you're stuck on CGNAT.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Tailscale is a US product. I would avoid

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Tailscale is Canadian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Ah the US state Canada? ~/s~

Nah, my bad.. you are right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can also "simply" raw-dog Wireguard. It's built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. "We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."

This is a rough sketch:

Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won't conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

Boom. Tailscale'd.

I'm sure I've forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that's broken in a new way every time I try to use it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Alternative is: Headscale.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Alternative is: Netbird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Also a bit annoying to set up in Russia, it works just fine, but the windows installer crashes trying to get an up to date version because of error 451. On iOS if you downloaded it before then it works (you redownload from the purchases page), have not tried on Linux yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm going to take my laptop over there. Anyway, I'd go with a paid VPN for an additional peace of mind.