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by rsync 3049 days ago
"it's unrealistic to ask users to set up and maintain their own VPS servers."

I think that sshuttle[1] changes that calculus.

sshuttle allows you to make any ssh server a VPN endpoint. So you don't need to configure IPSEC or make an SSH tunnel or anything like that - you just need a login on an ssh server somewhere.

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
1 comments
GordonS 3049 days ago
AFAIR, it doesn't work for Windows clients, which are a rather large user segment. Still, it is impressively simple to use for Linux and OSX users.
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rsync 3049 days ago
... and it works for FreeBSD and as of our (rsync.net) sponsorship of work done last year, has DNS support in FreeBSD with ipfw as the backend.
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