Don’t know if it’s my vpn or if all vpn’s will do this, but i’m trying to use .mil sites on my vpn and they just don’t connect. I’m not trying to use .mil RESTRICTED sites like VPC or anything, I want to use internet accessible things like mypay, portal, or a base’s site. I’m guessing it’s a ‘certificates’ issue since i’ve always encountered the ‘site not trusted’ issues when trying to do cac sites even in the states without any vpn’s on, but i don’t have the option to install dod certificates onto my vpn’s servers or anything. So like i can’t get to mypay with the VPN on, but i can’t get american content on streaming sites and/or certain sites will be blocked by host nation without the VPN on.
So i’d rather find a fix for the .mil issue on vpn so i can just keep vpn on at the router level. Anyone know a fix?
Just a guess as I don’t know the exact setup, but it’s possible the DoD blocks incoming non-DoD VPN connections to prevent all possibilities of those companies from spying on your DoD-related traffic.
Or it might just be a configuration your VPN has that’s not compatible with DoD sites.
“Site not trusted” while stateside and connection refused through commercial VPN might be two separate issues. Addressing the stateside issue, you want to get InstallRoot 5.5 on your computer and install the DoD Certificate Authorities.
The “site not trusted” doesn’t seem to be something that you’d fix by changing your VPN; your browser is saying that the site itself doesn’t have a trusted cert, and you trust certs (or more accurately, tell your browser to) on your own computer. The fact that you get the issue even without the VPN strongly suggests that the VPN is not the issue here, it’s your browser. You should follow the instructions at https://militarycac.com/, or in /u/mindless_confusion’s post.
Even if so I doubt it’s the case here. This is one of those vpns that doesn’t appear as a vpn to thwart sites like Netflix who actively block vpns the same way you described. It works against all the streaming giants like Netflix so I doubt the monument to incompetence that is DISA manages to figure out it’s a vpn
Yeah that’s what I was talking about. I know that process and I have had that installed on my personal computers for ages, but that’s not what I’m having trouble with, and like I mentioned in the post, I can’t really install that onto the vpn
True, but I don’t have issues connecting to dod sites from a host nation connection so I doubt they’re just blocking all international traffic. The VPN I use is headquartered in a country that’s a US ally so even if they just block sus countries I don’t think that’d be the case here
Chrome, Vivaldi, Firefox (needs extra help to play nice with cacs), new edge, ie, none (virtual desktop has the same problem). I’m full spaghetti to the wall here
You’d be surprised…any VPN has to provide an IP address to the receiving service, where you have an IP address you are generally able to find the owner of said IP address. Unless the VPN is doing something super sketchy, I bet there’s ways to identify it as a VPN. Plus, when accessing a government system, DISA can inspect packets (even encrypted ones) and get much more info about an encrypted VPN connection coming in than someone like Netflix probably does.