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OpenVPN and Youtube

Issam2204Issam2204 Member
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Any of you is using OpenVPN and when going to YouTube you read something like "We are receiving several requests from your IP, please solve this captcha".

Despite using OpenVPN on a VPS with dedicated IPv4 I still have this warnings and it is becoming annoying. Btw the VPS is located on France (OVH node I believe).

Do you also have this? How can I solve such an issue? Is it an issue of the node or of my OpenVPN configuration?

Thanks :)

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  • AeneAene Member

    I guess it could be a lot of reasons. You got some malware or someone in your IP range is doing something silly or your browser is leaking your real IP and they don't think it adds up.
    http://blog.golgi.io/excuse-me-sir-your-webrtc-is-leaking

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  • J1021J1021 Member

    I've hosted my VPN in a dozen places (Linode, Vultr etc) and never had an issue like this.

    Thanked by 2netomx Issam2204
  • boerndboernd Member
    edited May 2015

    OVHs whole IPv6 space is blacklisted by youtube.

    curl -I https://www.youtube.com -6

    HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests

    IPv4 works for me

    curl -I https://www.youtube.com -4

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    I have tested it from different OVH servers.

    Thanked by 4netomx Makenai Issam2204 BensDaMan
  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    Thanks guys for the answers!

    I think @boernd got it! Indeed when I use youtube-dl, I necessarily need to use the option --force-ipv4 otherwise I can't download any content.

    How do I tell to OpenVPN to use only the IPv4? Is this a client issue or server issue?

    Thank you again :)

  • TinyTunnel_TomTinyTunnel_Tom Member

    @Issam2204 said:
    Thanks guys for the answers!

    I think boernd got it! Indeed when I use youtube-dl, I necessarily need to use the option --force-ipv4 otherwise I can't download any content.

    How do I tell to OpenVPN to use only the IPv4? Is this a client issue or server issue?

    Thank you again :)

    Just disable v6 all together.

  • funyuns_are_awesomefunyuns_are_awesome Member

    I know how to disable ipv6 in windows, but like you said @Issam2204 it might be a server issue.

    For Windows, in command prompt:

    netsh interface teredo set state disabled

    netsh interface ipv6 6to4 set state state=disabled undoonstop=disabled

    netsh interface ipv6 isatap set state state=disabled

    Thanked by 1Issam2204
  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    Thank you @funyuns_are_awesome!

    I use Ubuntu 14.04.02 though :)

    I'm now looking around to find how to disable IPv6 on Linux.

  • getvpsgetvps Member

    @Issam2204, to disable ipv6 http://askubuntu.com/a/484487 and about youtube captcha can be your provider, maybe people who used same ip on other vpses, or your 'actions' :D. For VPN/RemoteDesktop Workstations i like to use dedicated ip clean and firewalled like (most of home ips) and i never got errors like this on youtube/gmail/other services like this :)

    Thanked by 1Issam2204
  • getvpsgetvps Member
    edited May 2015

    @Aene said:
    I guess it could be a lot of reasons. You got some malware or someone in your IP range is doing something silly or your browser is leaking your real IP and they don't think it adds up.
    http://blog.golgi.io/excuse-me-sir-your-webrtc-is-leaking

    WebRTC leaking just LAN IP (most of people have router before primary connections,so lan IPS) , in issam example can be cookies, same cookies, before and after turning on OpenVPN. To check if webrtc leak your ip try http://ipleak.net/ , and if your real ip is here and your browser is firefox go in about:config and set "media.peerconnection.enabled" to false. (edit: @aene link can help you better to disable this)

    Thanked by 2Issam2204 kzed
  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    Thanks getvps!

    I've tried to disable IPv6 and indeed when I do "ifconfig" I don't see the IPv6 address anymore.

    I thought I solved the problem but actually this is what happens:

    issam@VPS:~$ curl -I https://www.youtube.com -6 curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server

    and then:

    issam@VPS:~$ curl -I https://www.youtube.com -4 HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests

    Is the fault here really IPv6?

  • UrDNUrDN Member

    Are you visiting youtube.com exclusively with curl? This could be based on user-agent.

    Thanked by 2Issam2204 netomx
  • getvpsgetvps Member

    @Issam2204 , IPV6 is down now, is fine. But if you still get this error , i guess is something wrong with your IP (ipv4) blacklisted or something. If you run shell scripts (curl/other) to get youtube content try to customize better this scripts..(to look more legit)

  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    @UrDN, thanks for the answer.

    Theoretically I should have the same output of boernd (3rd comment). Why is my IPv4 also banned?

  • getvpsgetvps Member

    @Issam2204, i remember a long time ago, i used one ipv4 from OVH vps and sometime i got captcha errors on google search. Maybe is something wrong with some OVH IPs VS G00gle!

  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    Yes, as mentioned before OVH IPv6 is blacklisted by Google :)

  • getvpsgetvps Member

    Maybe IPV4 too, i always disable IPV6. I dont like and understand very good ipv6 yet! (so disabled)

  • UrDNUrDN Member

    It's very likely that the previous user of this address ran some script to automatically crawl youtube.com, like some public sites that assist noobs to easily store the videos. I guess they have a pretty static blacklist and it will be very difficult to contact them and have them removed your host.

  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    Indeed @UrDN!

    I contacted the VPS hosting. Either I get another IP or I'll rent another VPS.

  • UrDNUrDN Member
    edited May 2015

    @Issam2204 said:
    Indeed UrDN!

    I contacted the VPS hosting. Either I get another IP or I'll rent another VPS.

    It's not their fault unless the previous user was really commiting a serious abuse, it's rather a youtube.com problem.

    Thanked by 1Issam2204
  • Issam2204Issam2204 Member

    I will contact Youtube then :) thanks!

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