invalidroute.com

Censorship is a routing problem.

The Great Firewall, national DNS poisoning, an ISP blocklist, a regulator's spreadsheet of banned domains — every one of them does the same small thing. It declares a route invalid and hopes the traffic gives up.

It doesn't. This domain exists because veilock.com is blocked in places that would prefer you couldn't read this sentence, and blocking a name has never been the same thing as blocking a network. Everything you need is on this side of the wall.

The point

To every network that decided this route was invalid.

You can poison a DNS record. You can fingerprint a handshake and drop it. You can put a domain on a list and tell people it was for their own protection. What you cannot do is make the demand go away, and you cannot block a name you haven't thought of yet.

There is always another route. This is one of them, and registering another costs about fifteen dollars.

The internet is a human right, and so are the websites on it. The routing table should be touched for one reason only — something causing significant, concrete harm to other people — and never for political convenience. Block this domain and there will be another.

What's here

Three reasons this domain is worth bookmarking.

Route open

Veilock connection profiles

Veilock's OpenVPN profiles and the standard clients that read them, served from this host's own storage rather than fetched from veilock.com — so they work when that domain does not resolve.

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Vortex

Network-level ad, tracker and malware filtering at the DNS layer, covering every device on the connection — including the ones that cannot run a blocker.

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