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rochem
Aspirant
Jan 20, 2022

Blocking HotSpot Shield VPN

My teenage kids have figured out by installing HotSpot Shield VPN while on celluar data they can bypass Circle 1st gen on my Netgear RAX80 router.   How do I block Iphone users from using HotSpot S...
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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 20, 2022

You'll play the game of "what vpn are they using now". Here's the details on blocking hotspot shield but you'll have to search each vpn's specifics to block those. 

 

What a quick internet search returned about blocking Hotspot Shield and what you want to achieve is:

Block the following TCP and UDP ports outbound:

  • 1194
  • 8040-8045
  • 8245

Make sure the following domains are blocked:

  • hotspotshield.com
  • hotspotshield.net
  • anchorfree.com
  • anchorfree.net
  • openvpn.net
rochem's avatar
rochem
Aspirant
Jan 20, 2022

Thank you, I will give this a try.

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    nielsvds
    Luminary
    Jan 20, 2022

    You may not forget that certain browser also have a build in VPN feature that you can not block. Beside that they can also use a proxy so a parental control software will not able to detect or block anything.