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Hide.me CLI VPN client for Linux
https://hide.me
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No option to connect to streaming optimized servers #8

Closed KorvinSilver closed 2 years ago

KorvinSilver commented 3 years ago

Both the Windows and the Android app have options to connect to streaming optimized servers (e.g. Netflix), however an option like this is missing from this client and what servers are used by the others are not documented anywhere.

ljrk0 commented 3 years ago

You can simply use e.g., streaming-uk.hideservers.net instead of uk-hideservers.net for the streaming optimized UK VPN.

tcohar commented 3 years ago

Same goes for all the other streaming regions we support. One more thing about the DNS names: We added DNS records for IPv6 connections. You can use the -v6 suffix to connect to a VPN server over IPv6 , -v4 to force IPv4 connections or -ds to have both IP families returned by the DNS. For example:

./hide.me connect nl-v6
./hide.me connect nl-v4
./hide.me connect nl-ds

Unfortunately, streaming servers are IPv4 only, but the rest of our servers are all dual-stack. IPv6 might work better for some of our customers due to various reasons.

We haven't updated the documentation since this is experimental. Normal names, e.g. nl.hideservers.net, return IPv4 addresses but that might change in favor of dual-stack responses.