VPN client support

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  • I want to stress that I’m talking about the NAS itself being the VPN client, not me VPNing to access the NAS

Got an email today from HMA, I’ve been using them as a VPN for my NAS (via ovpn profile) to use Download Station to grab torrents for many years now.

I got a response to a ticket today since I had trouble connecting:

We understand you’re having trouble using our services on your router that affects the NAS Synology. After months and months of heated debates we now have an update, and regrettably, some of you will be saddened by this announcement. We are discontinuing router support.
Rest assured that HMA will continue to develop and grow, however, using it on a router is no longer part of the HMA journey.

SO, the question is - is anyone else doing this and what are you using?

I used to use PIA, I haven’t dug into if they support OVPN third party client access or not.

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can’t you just enter ovpn file into the network section of the nas and connect system wide?

Anyways, I have a docker container that runs the vpn, and anything that I need to have behind a vpn, I also have containers for (namely torrent and web browser) and then i just route their connection through the vpn container

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I got problem in hma-openvpn.sh . List of servers could not be loaded.
After investigation found the solution:
The script tries to load (curl) the list of servers which is not available anymore. Used way back archive to get this list. Changed script from curl to cp of downloaded file. Then everything works as usual.

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The correct answer is TorGuard.

Been using it on my 920+ for well over a year now.

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I used to use PIA as a laptop VPN a few years ago, and struggled for a while trying to get it to work from my Synology. Eventually I gave up and tried ExpressVPN, which worked almost immediately and I’ve used it ever since.

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Couldn’t you use tailscale and set the NAS as an exit node?

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Why put the entire NAS behind a VPN? Does your NAS not support Docker?

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I have used HMA VPN on my Synology NAS for a couple of years.
But recently it stopped working.

When I now try to download fresh OpenVPN definition files from HMA - it fails because there is no reply from the server vpn.hidemyass.com.

HMA has no Live Chat anymore which is bad.

I therefore raised a case with HMA but has not got any replay after 5 days.

Lack of support is a showstopper for me and I will not renew my subscription.

I will now go for PIA with a free month and check out if PIA OpenVPN and PPPT works on my Synology NAS.

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that stopped working with HMA a couple days ago. When I went to check the setup and grab a new ovpn file for a different server maybe, all that stuff is gone.