How could I get available L2TP servers for specific regions?

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BoredAus
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Re: How could I get available L2TP servers for specific regi

Post by BoredAus » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:17 am

Not too sure about getting only L2TP capable servers other than using a rather fancy method. That is, to scrape information from the web pages themselves. Of course, if the physical web page is blocked then scraping would be virtually impossible. Other than to make do with API to list all the servers regardless if they have L2TP enabled or not. The initial hurdle is the one that is probably a little hard to come by but at least if the user can get a hold of VPN server and is able to access VPN Gate website, you should try and set the program to try and scrape the web pages instead.

As for enumerating all the servers regardless if they have L2TP or not, that is not possible because the aim of this VPN Gate project was to make authorities governing GFW in China hard to block all the servers. Besides, even if they tried to block all the servers listed, they end up blocking innocent addresses. For reference you can always watch the video/read the paper presented by Prof. Daiyuu Nobori. Someone here posted a way before on how to potentially do so but there are no guarantees on getting the list of all the servers.

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