The whole point of me getting a VPN was to bypass the blocking of torrent sites.
I’m currently using PIA and am usually connected to the internet via their local servers ( either in Australia or New Zealand).
I’m suddenly having difficulty connecting to some of the more prominent torrent sites/hosts.
Although I manage to perform the security verification on (say) ext.to I’ll encounter a ‘Web server is returning an unknown host error’ message.
Error code 520
If I connect to a Hong Kong server, though, I don’t encounter this error and manage to get through. I initially thought both sites were down but it is as if some local VPN blocking might be now going on.
Is that likely or possible?
Some countries block(how? Dunno, internet dark magic) some sites/domains so switching vpn locations solves the problem. If your country blocks a domain and you use a vpn server from the same country you wouldn’t be able to access it anyway, if you change the country the server is in you get around the block. This is one reason why VPNs are sold as an anti-censorship tool.