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Hardening Reality for Russia: 443, fp, vision

The most insidious failure of an entry point under Russia isn't "won't connect," it's "connects for a couple of minutes, then dead" — and it's not fixed where everyone looks. I've collected here what has actually pulled entries back to life: port 443, fp=firefox instead of chrome, the right transport, and dest. Each one comes from a real-world investigation where we lost hours on the wrong hypothesis.

First — how to separate config from block

Before you harden, make sure you're fixing the right disease. The symptom "connects for a couple of seconds → drops" comes from a broken config, from DPI, and from a poisoned IP alike — and they're cured differently. Quick diagnosis:

  • Test from a neutral point. Run the client from a server outside the blocked network (another country). If the exit is correct from there but not from Russia — then DPI/a block is to blame, not the config. Saves hours.<…
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