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Set up a personal VPN in the cloud
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-that-works/
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Algo VPN stops connecting after a day - An unexpected error occurred. #1178

Closed xmijo closed 5 years ago

xmijo commented 6 years ago

Algo VPN stops working after a day on macOS Mojave using Vultr as the VPS.

Everything works fine after installing the .mobileconfig and it will work for a day or so. But then later when trying to connect it will just disconnect and a pop-up box appears saying VPN Connection: An unexpected error occurred. This has happened twice now and running ./algo to set up the VPS again fixes it. Note that this behavior does not include my iPhone, where the VPN will still work fine.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Use macOS Mojave and Vultr as the VPS. Unsure if this matters, but I never had this problem on High Sierra using DigitalOcean.
  2. Use your Algo VPN for a day or two.
  3. After a day or two, try to connect to Algo VPN as usual and find that it won't connect.

Expected behavior

That it will connect to the Algo VPN.

I'd include the full log but I'm not sure how to retrieve it now. If it is needed I will run ./algo again and set up the VPS instance and then also paste the log here.

norenjr commented 5 years ago

Hey I noticed extremely high data usage on iOS, is this typical? Usually VPN usage bumps data a bit, but this is extreme f34110b1-f248-417b-a518-b565a21c9469