NordVPN is blocked by ISP

[mrahmadt]

Hello

NordVPN is blocked by my ISP so the command
openpyn --init
will not work because it's trying to download
https://nordvpn.com/api/files/zip

I suggest if you change the link to https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip

[jotyGill]

Hello there,
I see, well, using the this new link would required some changes as the structure and names of the files in this zip are different. If this happens to others as well I will change the code to work with this new link.
For you I just created a little script to rename the files.
You can skip the "--init" bit by doing the following.

1: Store Credentials,

sudo touch /usr/share/openpyn/credentials
sudo echo "username" > /usr/share/openpyn/credentials
sudo echo "password" >> /usr/share/openpyn/credentials
sudo chmod 600 /usr/share/openpyn/credentials

2: Setup opvn files.
download and extract https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip

sudo mkdir /usr/share/openpyn/files

3: copy all ovpn files (both tcp and udp folders) into /usr/share/openpyn/files

4: copy this rename.zip python script into /usr/share/openpyn/files. and run it.
sudo python3 rename.py

That's it, should work.

[mrahmadt]

Thanks for the instruction, I will use it

This is the official link from NordVPN to download the OVPN

https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/linux/openvpn/

[Steve0t]

Hey,

First, thanks fur putting this together, looks great

I got the same issue, I tried your script but the file names have changed from that link. I would greatly appreciate if you can make the change to allow the https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip link to work.

[jotyGill]

8cb0755 The commit is not pushed to the master branch yet. Grab the 'test' branch. Try it out.

sudo pip3 uninstall openpyn
git clone --branch test /~https://github.com/jotyGill/openpyn-nordvpn.git
cd openpyn-nordvpn
sudo python3 setup.py install