Hi
On https://riseup.net/en/vpn/vpn-red one can read "Your computer will get its own IP address on the open internet. This is great, because that way your computer can communicate freely with others without getting blocked. However, bypassing the local firewall also means that your computer is more vulnerable to attack. Therefore, you should enable a firewall on your computer."
But my tests show otherwise. I got IP address 172.27.100.2. This is a private IP address that is unreachable from the internet. I cannot host any service there.
CIDR: 172.16.0.0/12
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-BBLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
The documentation should be fixed: You do not get a public IP address, you are NAT'ed.
Additionally, it would be nice to get IPv6 protection. Right now, only sites that do not offer ipv6 are routed though the vpn.
Please provide an ipv6 address, too.
Hi,
The documentation is out of date :( We used to give out a handful of unique addresses (switching to NAT when they were depleted) but we moved away from that.
vpnred is a legacy service that we only maintain for clients that can't use bitmask or the new riseup vpn, so we are unlikely to make many changes there like ipv6 support. It would be a good feature for the new riseup vpn though.
The documentation is out of date :( We used to give out a handful of unique addresses (switching to NAT when they were depleted) but we moved away from that.
vpnred is a legacy service that we only maintain for clients that can't use bitmask or the new riseup vpn, so we are unlikely to make many changes there like ipv6 support. It would be a good feature for the new riseup vpn though.