# Tor has been banned in my country. How to revive the node?

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011 "2021-12-03T22:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![hatred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hatred](https://community.umbrel.com/u/hatred)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011/1 "2021-12-03T22:04:26Z")

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Unfortunately, Tor has been banned in our country, and a node with several active channels has gone down and has not been rising for a day.

How can I run it with the same settings without using Tor?

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**Author:** ![hatred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hatred](https://community.umbrel.com/u/hatred)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011/2 "2021-12-04T13:54:26Z")

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UPD:  
Restored using Blixt, no problem. The only thing that saved was that Tor was not blocked on the mobile phone.

In general, it’s amazing how the software is not adapted to my situation: there is no way to easily configure Tor bridges anywhere, there is no compatibility between Tor channels and non-Tor channels.

In general, this is the end of the experiments with Umbrel. It was interesting, but this thing is not for me. Have a good moon landing to hodlers and prosperity to users and devs!

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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011/3 "2021-12-06T13:30:49Z")

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Maybe using another service provider that doesn’t block TOR connections was an option?  
I’m curious, why an ISP would want to block TOR connections anyway?

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**Author:** ![Hakuna](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/hakuna/32/549_2.png) [@Hakuna](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Hakuna)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011/4 "2022-01-04T11:29:05Z")

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Russia is supressing the ISPs to ban Tor exit nodes where possible.  
To the OP @hatred: You could in the meantime consider - carefully - whether going Hybrid is an option. That means you expose your clearnet IP. If you’re more advanced, you could add a VPN relay and masquerade your clearnet IP.  
Details can [be found here](http://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-clearnet-parallel-setup-hybrid-for-your-umbrel-with-lnd-14-1/4980/5), lmk if you need help.

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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/tor-has-been-banned-in-my-country-how-to-revive-the-node/5011/5 "2022-10-12T00:28:11Z")

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Could you use a service like Tailscale?

> [@How to use Tailscale with Umbrel](http://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-use-umbrel-with-tailscale/6782/3):
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> Whats your opinion on using some dynamic dns providers (like duckns), to setup a .duckdns.org subdomain pointing to the ip address generated/given by Tailscale? I am using this solution currently.