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Possible reasons why my VPN can't connect to Piratebay or Extratorrents anymore? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The whole point of me getting a VPN was to bypass the blocking of torrent sites.

I'm currently using PIA and am usually connected to the internet via their local servers ( either in Australia or New Zealand).

I'm suddenly having difficulty connecting to some of the more prominent torrent sites/hosts.

Although I manage to perform the security verification on (say) ext.to I'll encounter a 'Web server is returning an unknown host error' message.

Error code 520

If I connect to a Hong Kong server, though, I don't encounter this error and manage to get through. I initially thought both sites were down but it is as if some local VPN blocking might be now going on.

Is that likely or possible?

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[–] 3 points 4 days ago

I had a problem with DNS over TLS with PIA this sounds very similar. The conflict was DNS encryption type. I use Gluetun infront of PIA and the DNS resolver defaults to DNS-over-TLS on TCP 853. Through PIA’s tunnel, port 853 is blocked or doesn’t work reliably. SO I switched DNS to DNS-over-HTTPS on port 443 (I used Cloud9), which PIA allows and Gluetun can actually use. Not sure if this is you issue at all but if you have a common ARR stack with a vpn through gluetun this very possibly could be

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