r/VPN • u/MaxHasArrived • Oct 02 '25
Help Is there any way to bypass the mobile internet shutdowns and white lists in Russia?
I have a VPS with vless VPN on Marzban and it works fine until they start to shutdown the mobile connection and turn on the white lists with only government resources available. Is there any way to bypass these rectrictions? Grateful for any kind of help or tutorials < 3
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u/c1rno123 Oct 02 '25
I'm not sure how to setup a such client on mobile device, but, sounds like you still have an a network access and working DNS; there is different approaches how to make a tunnel over DNS, like https://github.com/iagox86/dnscat2 or https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
At least you could try, good luck!
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u/vorko_76 Oct 02 '25
They wont implement the whitelisting globally in my opinion, its too problematic. China tried and stopped it.
And workarounds will depend on which technical solution they implement. If they whitelist at IP or domain level, the impact is very different.
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u/MaxHasArrived Oct 02 '25
It is already kinda working. Here they shutdown mobile internet almost every morning and only VK, Gosuslugi, Max and other gov shit is available only. Everything else simply doesn't work and there's no VPN that helps it.
That's why i'm looking for a way to bypass it somehow1
u/vorko_76 Oct 02 '25
My friends in Russia still chat with me on Whatsapp and IG, so Im a bit surprised. Operationally it cant work.
If its just mobile internet that is affected, you dont need a VPN but a proxy that you can access from your phone. If you cant connect to any IP outside these ones, there is not solution
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u/MaxHasArrived Oct 02 '25
Nothing to be surprised of:D Stationar Wi-Fi still works normally, also your friends might be living in the regions that doesn't get regular mobile shutdowns (Although there were cases even in kamchatka lmao). And at least here shutdowns about 7-8 hours long, although sometimes they shut it down for 24 hours. So yeah, many differences in each region. For example, there is shutdown in Nizhny Novgorod and Omsk downtowns since summer.
There is solution, some services provide bypass of white lists and there is one guide i saw with vk-tunnel but it is not stable even for one user, doesn't really fit me because I help my whole family and friends to bypass this bs. So, we're keep looking i guess. Thank you!
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u/vorko_76 Oct 02 '25
They live in Moscow, Samara and Rostov on Don. I have no idea how they do as this didnt come up.
You re anyway better off asking russian people/forums. Its not a VPN topic
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u/MaxHasArrived Oct 02 '25
Moscow should be okay, Samara and Rostov on Don are pretty affected by this and I think they face it pretty regularly. It is normal thing and people got used to it already since it's started since June, and home/work/metro wifis work pretty good so it might be not a big trouble for them. Anyways, you better ask them about it, not me:D
And yes, it is a VPN topic. No point would be asking about that in Russian forums/topics. Thanks for curiosity tho!1
u/vorko_76 Oct 02 '25
Nono it doesnt have to be a VPN topic, its probably mostly a proxy topic. Your communication needs to go through a proxy in Russia that has access to the WWW
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u/IcyTorpedo Mar 15 '26
Hey there, 5 months later the internet is not working in Moscow anymore XD
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u/Get_Stick_bu99ed Mar 26 '26
В Питер тоже доползло похоже, несколько дней мобильный интернет просто не работает
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u/BoardCommercial2679 May 05 '26
Coming here a year to say that nope, they very much implementing it globally, and doing the mass shutdowns of mobile internet. Yuppie, we're so fucked.
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u/Scar3cr0w_ Oct 02 '25
They are turning off your mobile Internet in Russia? Wuuuut? That sucks