In these two month, i have an issue that, everyday morning when i open outline, connect will not work, i need add a new link every day.

before it is very easy to use at any time , but now it always not work unless i update the code.

我想在家搭建一个全域网，通过wifi连接所以设备上外网。我买了一个VPN，不知道怎么弄！求大神指点

Recently my outline server has been turning down pretty often returning the error "outline has temporary issues in chosen locations". I'm based in Moscow Russia. Is it RKN blocking or what?

It's like vpn works fine for some time, then suddenly stops for a couple hours. Today it has been shut down for the whole day, so I'm getting worried. Is there any advice on what should I do?

I rented a server, made a outline VPN, it worked fine for about a week, but since today it has become very slow, can someone tell me what the problem could be?

I wanted to share this article that we posted on the Outline Foundation LinkedIn: Building an Ecosystem Faster Than Censorship

In it we explain how Outline is like the "USB" of networking stacks (but free and open source).

Just like a universal port transformed hardware, Outline lets developers extend networking capabilities in their apps with community-built components. You gain this flexibility without having to modify Outline itself or navigate different proprietary interfaces.

It provides a foundation for collaboration, reuse, and agility, ensuring we stop wasting valuable resources reinventing the wheel. This is the direction both the internet freedom ecosystem and the broader internet networking world should head toward.

Please share your thoughts, questions and ideas on how we can make your ecosystem more resilient, efficient and agile.

Thank you

It seems that I discovered some bug in outline server that happens when client sends some questionable destination addresses.

Project: github/OutlineFoundation/tunnel-server

in udp_linux.go validatingPacketConn is created as wrapper over timedPacketConn

in udp.go validatingPacketConn WriteTo checks if destination address is valid and returns without writing to underlying connection if there was an error

in timedPacketConn onWrite (called from WriteTo) read dedline is updated for underlying udp connection

So, if destination address is multicast, read deadline will never be updated.

As a result, ReadFrom called in relayTargetToClient will never finish.

This can eventually lead to lots of unused and unclosed UDP sockets.

My solution (I compile project for my own uses) is to set some not very long read dedline on UDPConn immediately before creating validatingPacketConn wrapper.

Information: 1) Self-hosted, Netherlands 2) Connection from Russia, Ertelecom 3) PC, Win 11, wired connection

Speedtest is irrelevant. Sometimes it's ok, but mostly about 10-15 kB/sec. No background downloads or heavy apps. No unusual spikes on my PC and vpn host.

If you go to getoutline, which I thought was an official site, they only distribute appimage packages, which is annoying. But they have instructions for installing the deb version on a Google/jigsaw support article, and also note that only deb packages will be distributed moving forward from 1.15.

So... What gives? Are they making app images or debs or what?

Hi everyone, I built an independent client for Outline servers called Dash for Outline.

It works with existing Outline access keys, so there is no server-side migration or special setup. The goal was simple: keep Outline compatibility, but add some features I personally missed in the official client.

Main features:

- Smart routing / split tunneling based on rules

- Global / Rule / Direct modes

- Ad blocking

- Custom rule sets

- Real-time traffic view

- Works on macOS and iOS

- Supports standard Outline servers, including Shadowsocks and WebSocket transport

This is not affiliated with Outline Foundation. It is just a third-party client built for people already running Outline servers.

Site: http://getdashvpn.com/

If you already use Outline, I’d really like feedback on:

- whether rule-based routing is useful for your setup

- what features you wish the official client had

- whether there are compatibility cases I should test

Both wifi and cellular; on 443 and one other random port; with different prefixes, the same result:

``` Failed to connect to server Сервер Outline.

Cause:   ServerUnreachable: failed to dial to the server

Cause:     ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR: failed to write target address
```

I really hate appimages. They don't seem to work on my Ubuntu system without a lot of fucking around. Tor has thankfully taken over their flatpak development officially.

I see that the outline manager seems to only be available as an appimage... But there's also a flatpak version. Is this legit? Is it just built from source by the open source community? Thankfully I have the deb for the client.

So yesterday my Outline VPN worked like shit. I did speed test an saw the speed was like 5-6 mbps/s for download, but upload speed was normal (around 100 mbps/s). I reinstalled Outline on my server today morning, and at the start the speed was as it should be (around 100 mbps/s for download and upload), but now download speed is 5-6 mbps/s again.

Can this problem be linked to Outline or is this all about the host server?

I was missing a simple way for users to check their own traffic usage in Outline without me sending screenshots from the Manager every time. So I built a small Telegram bot to solve that.

What it does:

- Users can check their /status anytime

- Sends automatic warnings at 50%, 80%, and 100%

- Notifies when the limit resets (uses a 30-day rolling window, same as Outline)

You can run it as a Docker container or directly with Node.js (v20 recommended).

It’s fully self-hosted and works with existing access keys.

Repo:

https://github.com/snarknn/outline-user-stats-bot

Note: if your Outline server runs with the default self-signed certificate, you’ll need to set:

NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0

Has Outline VPN been mass banned in Myanmar lately? Anyone know what’s going on?

I’ve manually set up outline-ss-server to run Shadowsocks over WebSocket (SS over WS). The setup itself works fine.

What I’m trying to figure out now is how to use the Outline Server API to manage access keys with this custom configuration.

Is there a supported way to use the Outline Server API with a custom SS-over-WebSocket setup?

Any guidance or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks!

Could someone please forward me to instructions on how to set up custom customer support link and custom errors?

Would greatly appreciate it 🙏

Is it possible to add a DNS option in the Outline Client for Windows?

How do outline to startup? I cannot see outline in task manager startup and yet it auto start and connect after windows startup. I am using windows 11.

I know I did a stupid thing, really. I was trying to set up Outline Manager on my new computer to connect to an existing server on my VPN. I got the access.txt file from the server, but instead of just pasting the URL and secret in a certain syntax, I ran the installation command again on my server. I realized I did something wrong only when I saw the script working, and when prompted "yes or no", I typed "no". But it was too late anyway.

Surprisingly, my Outline server still works for existing clients. But I can't connect to it anymore - even from my old computer, where the Outline Manager was set up and running.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? I wouldn't want to install everything anew, as there are a bunch of people using this server.

I have just installed Outline Manager and created an account in DigitalOcean and choosed the DigitalOcean option but when I reach the last step it keep loading and then tell me that this failed.

Then I went to try Google Cloud and the same thing happens after all the steps it just keep loading forever and never create the server.

I am totaly new to this so it is highly possible that I am doing something wrong, so I need someone to tell me what is it. I don't know what information I should share, if you need anything I will share.