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Community analysis of the Iran VLESS+TLS failure identified DNS poisoning as a primary root cause: domain-based resolution for services like Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook was disrupted even when traffic transited a VLESS+TLS tunnel from a domestic VPS, bypassing the transport-layer obfuscation entirely.

From 2022-oftenhamed-vless-tls-hasVless + TLS has a weird behavior on Iran VPS · Issue thread (abstract) · 2022 · net4people/bbs

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censors
ir
techniques
dns-poisoning
defenses
vless

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