lucas@pc:~/vpngate-with-proxy$ ./run tui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 1082, in
screen.run()
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 1018, in run
self.loop.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 278, in run
self._run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 376, in _run
self.event_loop.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 682, in run
self._loop()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 715, in _loop
alarm_callback()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 164, in cb
callback(self, user_data)
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 665, in periodic_checker
self.status(self.ovpn.messages)
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 957, in status
log.write(m + '\n')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe0' in position 59274: ordinal not in range(128)

Hi, I encountered an error. I do the guide and troubleshooting but still got this error.

Hi Dragon2fly,

It would also be nice to have the ip address (and or name) of the VPN servers displayed in the console terminal output menu screen. This way we can determine which VPN server(s) we may have used before, or that we have tried and work better. Of course maybe recording the connection history of server ip addresses to a text file (or database file) and providing a quick compare to currently available servers option with a visual indicator (some character or symbol) showing which servers (if any) have been used before would help users as well?

FYI: I also tried this in my Linux Mint 18.1 KDE system and it works well there as well. :)

Thank you again for providing this very useful tool.

Have a great day and night ...

Best regards to you and yours,
Phil
phd21

It is a wrapper on top of openvpn.
Plus it breaks more than it works.

how to support a proxy-list

Hi Dragon2fly,

First, thank you for providing this for everyone. I found this in the link below:
(http://www.webupd8.org/2017/02/easily-use-free-vpn-servers-from-vpn.html)

I tried this out on my Linux Mint KDE 17.3 system today, and it worked great. Nice touch with having the DNS option as well. I tested it with "ipleak.net".

Question(s):

1. I noticed that it is only showing me TCP connections instead of both UDP and TCP servers that are available. Is there an option that I can set for using UDP ? I tried changing "Protocol" to "udp" and it did not find anything.

Feature Requests:

1. A desktop GUI front-end application so that it does not need to run from the console terminal prompt window. (perhaps in QT or a Python GUI).

2. Auto-reconnect option?

3. Packaging an installer as a ".deb" file, or ".appimage", etc...

Thank you again...

Have a great day !

Phil
phd21

Hi Dragon2fly and evadogstar,

I hope both of you and yours are doing well.

A couple of things:

1.) If you try to connect to a country VPN server that is not there, you get a lot errors that mess up the console text display. Could you please change the error routine for "country VPN not found" to send the errors to a text file with a date and time stamp, and perhaps reset the country code option to "all" and auto refresh? I have to hit "ctrl-c" to exit, then restart this to get a normal text display again...

2.) I like the "tui" interface, can you please add the listed VPN server IP addresses to its display too?

3.) I would still like a GUI front-end to this whenever you get a chance, let me know...

4.) When I run "python --version" from the console terminal prompt, the results is "Python 2.7.12", yet I do have python version 3 installed as well? If I type "python3 --version", the results is "Python 3.5.2". I assume that any applications will automatically look for an use whichever version they need, is this a false assumption? Or, is there some console terminal command to set a default for priority preference for python?

Thank you again for a wonderful vpngate application.

Best regards to you and yours...
Phil

Occurs when I try to connect to a server:

31 76.69 19 days 2weeks 1447316 tcp 995
Vpn command: user_script.sh: line 28: hostname: command not found 1/5
Error calling command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=70c2c43711774be2b6238f1e2da3db0

failed to negotiate cipher with server. Add the server's cipher
('AES-128-CBC') to --data-ciphers (currently 'AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:CHACHA20-POLY1305') if you
want to connect to this server.

OS: Arch Linux;

Please add SOCKS5 Proxy support to enable using Tor's local SOCKS5 Proxy at 127.0.0.1:9050 to route the VPN connection over Tor.

nice set of scripts, thanks !

it would be useful to have an option to setup iptables rules that guard traffic against non-VPN leakage. See https://github.com/sjakthol/vpngate-client/blob/master/vpngate-client , line 34 ff.

(i am still considering to use user_script.sh for this purpose, yet i see an issue with that too. That is, as i understand it, case "down" gets executed on both "VPN terminated" AND "VPN broken", so flushing iptables here is not what we want. We want it to be flushed on termination but exactly not in the event the VPN connection breaks.)

vpngate.net is blocked by my ISP. There are mirror sites which can be accessible by my browser but I can't connect with vpngate-with-proxy. Here is the log of vpn.

Sat Feb 5 20:27:05 2022: Vpngate with proxy is started
using gate: http://www.vpngate.net
ConnectionTimeout
Connection to gate http://www.vpngate.net failed
using gate: http://213.136.92.167:13182
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://213.136.92.167:13182 failed
using gate: http://78.142.193.246:33304
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://78.142.193.246:33304 failed
using gate: http://172.107.219.42:32685
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://172.107.219.42:32685 failed
using gate: http://222.255.11.117:54621
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://222.255.11.117:54621 failed
using gate: http://i118-27-48-67.vpngate-sv.d.rspnet.jp:7458
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://i118-27-48-67.vpngate-sv.d.rspnet.jp:7458 failed
using gate: http://118.105.213.20:23041
ConnectionError
Connection to gate http://118.105.213.20:23041 failed
Failed to get VPN servers data
Check your network setting and proxy

(vpn_indicator.py:17228): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 13:28:51.754: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 1090, in
screen = Display(vpn_connect)
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 605, in init
self.table = self.make_GUI() # list of lines, urwid.columns
File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 801, in make_GUI
self.Udata.append(deepcopy(Ulabel))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 190, in deepcopy
y = _reconstruct(x, rv, 1, memo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 334, in _reconstruct
state = deepcopy(state, memo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 163, in deepcopy
y = copier(x, memo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 257, in _deepcopy_dict
y[deepcopy(key, memo)] = deepcopy(value, memo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 190, in deepcopy
y = _reconstruct(x, rv, 1, memo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 352, in _reconstruct
y.append(item)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/monitored_list.py", line 384, in append
rval = super(MonitoredFocusList, self).append(item)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/monitored_list.py", line 30, in call_modified_wrapper
self._modified()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/container.py", line 1816, in _contents_modified
self._selectable = any(w.selectable() for w, o in self.contents)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/container.py", line 1906, in _get_contents
return self._contents
AttributeError: 'Columns' object has no attribute '_contents'

          Sorry for misunderstanding you. So you need the DNS **appeared** in the `user_script.sh` so that you can inform your **firewall** to **allow connections** to them. It is better not to change the source code of main program since other people don't have that need. Instead, let do entire job within `user_script.sh` only. The below code will parse DNS from `config.ini`, remove `,` and store the result in `dns` variable.

dns=$(cat config.ini | grep -o -P '(?<=^dns = ).*')
dns="${dns//,/}"
echo $dns

Then, just use your dns to do what ever needed with your firewall.

Perhaps, you should write about your use-case somewhere for other people to follow.

Thanks :)

Originally posted by @Dragon2fly in #2 (comment)

I'm trying to achieve the same thing as this person here, but having issues. I think my issue might be slightly different however as I am using Debian VM rather than Fedora VM.

I am able to get a connection, however other App VM's connecting through the vpn can't get web browser access. Does you're script create a .ovpn config file? As I need to add the setting of "redirect-gateway def1" to it somehow.

Where would I go about doing that? Many thanks

Same issue as #35
Tried using a proxy - terminal pings it and gets [alive], but still fails to fetch the list (vpngate.net is blocked for me)
I can manually download the list, how should I save it (and does it need re-formatting?)?
App also asked me to install KDE Wallet which I cancelled, is it crucial for the app to work?

I'm doing neither ./run [arg] nor ./vpnproxy_tui.py and ./vpnproxy_cli.py has error. Thank you

File "vpnproxy_cli.py", line 95
    print ctext('Warning: ', 'yB'),
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 167
    print '\n' + '_' * 12 + ctext(' First time config ', 'gB') + '_' * 12 + '\n'
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Currently, I use dnsmasq to forward all domain with TLD .dev to my local ip 127.0.0.1, everything is working fine. But when I connect to a VPN, I cannot open my domain.dev, please help me to config it.

Please consider making aur of this package I use manjaro

windows get thai list.

linux no thai server list

error picture:
http://wuguowei18508.com/Lychee/uploads/big/4c40997eb19f9f9095408064885a83a3.png

PS:I am a user from china,Does it matter?

Hi Dragon2fly,

I hope you and yours are doing well.

Not sure what is going on, but recently the list of vpngate servers seems confused? When I select a server like one in the US, it sometimes shows Japan when I check it through "ipleak.net", yet I can select another US server and it works? This did not happen before a couple weeks ago? This is using the "vpngate with proxy" not the "vpnwp_v2". Does the "vpnwp_v2" have a gui interface?

Is this because of the vpngate system, retrieved server lists, vpngate with proxy, or something from my system?

Best regards,
Phil
[email protected]

it shows me failed to get vpn servers data

Hello,

I installed all the dependencies on archlinux - I can't seem to connect. I have tried various methods of connecting (including trying to do this manually via openvpn) however I cannot connect. Your app is the first one that gave me the error message. Please see below:

I want to connect to Russian Servers to play LostArk.

Vpn command: Traceback (most recent call last):                                                       ↑↓ page: 1/6
  File "vpn_indicator.py", line 317, in change_focus                    
    call(['wmctrl', '-a', 'vpngate-with-proxy'])                        
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 168, in call            
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 390, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)leted 1
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1025, in _execute_child
    raise child_exceptionpngate.net
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

No any process named vpngate-with-proxy

sudo ps -aux | grep vpn*
  8458  0.0  0.0  14372    28 pts/0    S    11:37   0:00 /bin/bash /home/virgosun/Documents/vpngate-with-proxy/run
root      8460  0.0  0.4 647504  9228 pts/0    Sl   11:37   0:12 python vpn_indicator.py
root     10247  0.0  0.1  60704  2644 pts/0    S+   19:22   0:00 sudo /home/virgosun/Documents/vpngate-with-proxy/run
root     10251  0.0  0.1  14372  2204 pts/0    S+   19:22   0:00 /bin/bash /home/virgosun/Documents/vpngate-with-proxy/run
root     10262  0.0  0.1  60704  2652 pts/0    S+   19:22   0:00 sudo python vpnproxy_tui.py /home/virgosun
root     10266  0.7  2.5 1118156 46744 pts/0   Sl+  19:22   0:01 python vpnproxy_tui.py /home/virgosun

I run vpn_indicator.py in background, so there is a notify at gnome top bar when the vpn connected.
But I dont see this

After starting vpngate, vpn_indicator informs the status of the vpn connected. But a misspelling has catched my eyes. It is "Season:" maybe for "Session:"
To fix it, at first terminate vpn-gate, and open & edit indicator_config file, ~/vpngate-with-proxy/vpn_indicator.py.
Substitute "Season:" -> "Session:"
That's it :)

Hi Dragon2fly,

Me again, the problem I'm facing now is the script needs to be run as qvpn user to get through the dns on the system... I tried adding
command = ['sg qvpn -c openvpn', '--config', ovpn]
but it failed.

Where can I preappend sg qvpn -c to the openvpn command? Thanks

When the remote VPN host is closed, the traffic goes directly from my PC. The sense of using VPN disappears.

After changing the DNS values (successfully) and initiated connection, I get this error.
(see image)

https://anonimage.net/image/oEirzH1BUu

I should add that this error does not occur when I keep the default DNS list.
Please advise

Thanks

Marco

Hi Dragon2fly,
First let me tell you I love this handy tool!
Also really waiting for the implementation of softether for it!

Anyway at the moment I am running into a little issue:

user@acer:~/vpngate-with-proxy$ `./run tui`
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "vpnproxy_tui.py", line 21, in <module>
    from vpn_indicator import InfoClient
  File "/home/user/vpngate-with-proxy/vpn_indicator.py", line 22, in <module>
    gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 100, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Notify not available
user@acer:~/vpngate-with-proxy$ 

and here is the line in question; I commented it as a quick workaround but can you suggest anything better?
#gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')

then I can ./run tui, but after the initial configuration I click Enter, an rerun it, I get

`Lack of Gtk related modules! VPN indicator will not run!
 You should try "sudo apt-get install gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 python-gobject`

althought these dependencies are met!

(my distro = BunsenLab, latest version, always kept up to date; it is based on Debian Jessie
Thanks a lot