A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients

A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients

Commercial Virtual Private Network (VPN) services have become a popular and convenient technology for users seeking privacy and anonymity. They have been applied to a wide range of use cases, with commercial providers often making bold claims regarding their ability to fulfil each of these needs, e.g., censorship circumvention, anonymity and protection from monitoring and tracking. However, as ...

Network Working Group Bgp-mpls Ip Virtual Private Network (vpn) Extension for Ipv6 Vpn Bgp-mpls Ip Vpn Extension for Ipv6 Vpn

This document describes a method by which a Service Provider may use its packet-switched backbone to provide Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for its IPv6 customers. This method reuses, and extends where necessary, the "BGP/MPLS IP VPN" method for support of IPv6. In BGP/MPLS IP VPN, "Multiprotocol BGP" is used for distributing IPv4 VPN routes over the service provider backbone, and MPLS ...

Utilising IPv6 over VPN to Enhance Home Service Connectivity

The amount of home networks, as well as the number of services and hosts in them, is increasing. Often the home users cannot get public IPv4 network allocations from service providers and are forced to use Network Address Translation (NAT) and port forwarding to solve connectivity issues to the different home services. This paper introduces a secure connectivity solution utilising both IPv6 and...

What is a VPN

The term “VPN,” or Virtual Private Network, has become almost as recklessly used in the networking industry as has "QoS" (Quality of Service) to describe a broad set of problems and "solutions," when the objectives themselves have not been properly articulated. This confusion has resulted in a situation where the popular trade press, industry pundits, and vendors and consumers of networking tec...

VPN and IPsec