Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by bhauer on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:04AM (#25113264)

I assume you mean a "Proxy as a Service" when you say "VPN," right?

Without that focus, web sites would have a lot of trouble identifying IP traffic routed over a personal VPN from any other traffic. I suppose they could just block entire clouds, for those who run VPN servers on AWS, Azure, et al. But that would cause a lot of other problems.

I just route all of my devices through a single node I run at one physical location that appears like a genuine client node. I've never seen anything blocking it.

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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by sethhochberg on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:14PM (#25114201)

The one specific example I'm aware of is Delta Airlines seemingly blocking traffic that exits from my Digital Ocean droplet running OpenVPN... a service that, annoyingly, I mostly use when I am traveling and on public access points.

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