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Post 302524914 by GSO on Wednesday 25th of May 2011 05:06:09 AM
05-25-2011
Changed VPN provider from one of the $20 a month ones to $5 a month. The former seemed only to maintain one regional server while the latter has half a dozen or so.
First off it appears computer criminals have to make some adjustments to the new VPN (a change of IP?) - it took approx. 4 hours before the usual hacks started to surface.
It appears not all VPN providers are equal, a lot of old hacks that I haven't had while using the expensive VPN resurfaced - one of those being the browser search box works OK for a while, but for some inexplicable reason switches to defaulting to a French, or German etc. search (the Google SSL search fixes this; note the VPN server does not change when this change happens). The VPN provider thinks this is a Google issue.
However a new phenomena not experienced before - the BBC webpage at one point (not ongoing) seemed to think my IP was an overseas IP[1] while all ip lookups reported my IP as a UK site.
[1] If you are not in the UK the BBC serves ads with its pages (apparently the reason adverts are repeated is to condition your mind - I'm not sure exactly what the BBC's philosophy and rational is here
I wonder if setting up OpenVPN using e.g., Amazon servers, might be worth the effort. I noted Tor put a stop to hacking completely (changing IP every 15 mins) - while it worked, so I wonder if maybe setting up tor servers using hosting such as Amazon might be worth the effort also (i.e., so the integrity of the tor server could be guaranteed - the cost of Amazon hosting seems about comparable to a reasonable VPN).
First off it appears computer criminals have to make some adjustments to the new VPN (a change of IP?) - it took approx. 4 hours before the usual hacks started to surface.
It appears not all VPN providers are equal, a lot of old hacks that I haven't had while using the expensive VPN resurfaced - one of those being the browser search box works OK for a while, but for some inexplicable reason switches to defaulting to a French, or German etc. search (the Google SSL search fixes this; note the VPN server does not change when this change happens). The VPN provider thinks this is a Google issue.
However a new phenomena not experienced before - the BBC webpage at one point (not ongoing) seemed to think my IP was an overseas IP[1] while all ip lookups reported my IP as a UK site.
[1] If you are not in the UK the BBC serves ads with its pages (apparently the reason adverts are repeated is to condition your mind - I'm not sure exactly what the BBC's philosophy and rational is here
I wonder if setting up OpenVPN using e.g., Amazon servers, might be worth the effort. I noted Tor put a stop to hacking completely (changing IP every 15 mins) - while it worked, so I wonder if maybe setting up tor servers using hosting such as Amazon might be worth the effort also (i.e., so the integrity of the tor server could be guaranteed - the cost of Amazon hosting seems about comparable to a reasonable VPN).
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RACOON-TOOL(8) System Manager's Manual RACOON-TOOL(8) NAME
racoon-tool - program to manage the racoon(8) IPSEC IKE daemon. SYNOPSIS
racoon-tool [-h] reload|restart|force-reload|start|stop racoon-tool [-h] sadflush|spdflush|saddump|spddump racoon-tool [-h] vpndown|vdown|vpnup|vup connection-name|all racoon-tool [-h] vpnreload|vreload connection-name|all racoon-tool [-h] vpnlist|vlist [connection-name|all] racoon-tool [-h] vpnmenu|vmenu [connection-name-regexp] racoon-tool [-h] racoonstart|racoonstop|rstart|rstop DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the racoon-tool command. racoon-tool(8) is a perl script that can be used to control the racoon(8) IKE daemon and the SPD database within the kernel via the setkey(8) command. Various operations that it can do are described below. You can also optionally choose not to use it via reconfiguring the racoon package using dpkg-reconfigure(8). OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below. -h Show summary of options. COMMANDS
start Start racoon(8), loading any needed modules, configuring the SPD, and generating a configuration from /etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf (head) and following up with *.conf files from /etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf.d/. stop Stop racoon(8) unloading any crypto/IPSEC modules, flushing the SAD and SPD. reload Regenerate configuration from /etc/racoon/racoon.conf, and /etc/racoon/racoon.conf.d/, HUP racoon(8) and reinitialise the SPD and SAD. restart|force-reload Perform a stop followed by a start sadflush Flush the SAD via setkey(8). spdflush Flush the SPD via setkey(8). saddump|dump Dump the SAD to screen via setkey(8), paginating via your pager. spddump Dump the SPD to screen via setkey(8), paginating via your pager. vpnup|vup connection-name|all Bring up the VPN connection(s). vpndown|vdown connection-name|all Take down the VPN connection(s). vpnreload|vreload connection-name|all Reload the VPN connection(s). vpnlist|vlist [connection-name|all] List the known VPN connections in /etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf, etc. Can be used by a script or administrator to see if a VPN con- nection exists. vpnmenu|vmenu [connection-name-regexp] Start the VPN menu management mode. This displays the SPD, and you can shutdown VPNs from here. Latter on support will be added for checking status and reloading the chosen connection. racoonstart|rstart Start only the racoon(8) daemon. racoonstop|rstop Stop only the racoon(8) daemon. FILES
/etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf - configuration file (head). /etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf.d - configuration file segment directory read after the above. /var/lib/racoon/racoon.conf - generated racoon.conf SEE ALSO
racoon(8), racoon.conf(5), setkey(8), racoon-tool.conf(5). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Matthew Grant <matthewgrant5@gmail.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). RACOON-TOOL(8)