Bypass Internet Censorship feature not working

[kaizen107]

I tried the DNS and Firewall (default) , and the sites which are banned in my country are not opening.
I tried cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 app with warp connection it works fine and bypass internet censorship too.
Is there a solution to that problem in rethinkdns because i tried different dns mention in options there, also use dns without firewall, still no solution.

[ignoramous]

RethinkDNS is not a VPN, so it is limited in amount of censorship it can bypass. Specifically, RethinkDNS bypasses stateless firewalls doing SNI (server name identification) based blocks (Turkmenistan, India, etc). It cannot bypass firewalls doing IP blocks (Russia) or stateful firewall doing sophisticated DPI (deep packet inspection) (Iran, China, etc).

[ignoramous]

Could it be that moving between Wifi and Mobile network is the difference? Or, rather RethinkDNS doesn't work on some Wifis / Mobile networks?

I am confused, but would help if you can clear it up: Is the issue that RethinkDNS doesn't bypass blocked sites, or that RethinkDNS doesn't work at all no matter which DNS server you use (on all networks: Mobile and Wifi)?

[kaizen107]

I'm using Wifi, no mobile data
Secondly it wasn't working at all as i said when i connected my device to rethink it wasn't even loading github site, then i switched to 1.1.1.1 app the internet start working. So internet is not the problem.

I clear cache and data and then went to settings VPN disconnected RethinkDns and then connected it through app and it start working again. I'll probably disconnect it in the night and i dont know if its gonna work in the morning or not

[ignoramous]

Ah, gotcha. That's one annoying issue, alright.

So you're seeing RethinkDNS drop internet connectivity altogether. Btw, doesn't simply stop/start RethinkDNS app work? I'd wager it should. Can you confirm?

We have seen reports of such issues in v053c/d/e versions of the app (see #248), but I am surprised a similar issue is still prevalent on Realme/Android11.

[kaizen107]

Sometimes ... I mean rethink has a bug, once connected, when clicked stop it will only show waiting, it doesn't disconnect fully, in notification panel it was showing rethink disconnected but the app was showing waiting status other dns so also don't work till i disconnect rethink from Android settings.

[ignoramous]

Btw: We've improved the statuses (waiting/protected/starting/etc) we show on the app. #552

[ignoramous]

We are working on other bypasses for "stateless firewalls": celzero/firestack#1

And adding support for WireGuard VPN: #52

If possible, we also plan to add support for Socksifiers: #51