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problem with OverWatch connection using Squid proxy

Hello i hope someone would help me with thins problem ,
recently my ISP blocked access to battle.net and other sites and i can do nothing about it , so i thought i would use my VPS as a proxy, I've set up a squid proxy and opened the suitable port in UFW . then in my pc i can use Proxifier to force some apps to use the proxy . the result is :
-World of Warcraft is working without any issue
-Overwatch is the problem, i can enter the main menu but when i chose to play a game i keeps looping in loading .

my squid config is like :

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/squid_passwd
auth_param basic casesensitive off
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic children 20
acl user_auth proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow user_auth
#http_access allow all
http_port 8888

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and I've opened the port 8888 in UFW

I've tried Openvpn and it can enter a game in overwatch but i don't want to tunnel the whole PC .

Ben McNelly

I don't have overwatch, but my guess is there is a secondary check in its trying to do. I would look at the traffic while on a full VPN and when using the proxy and play spot the problem port. Netstat may work, but you may want to use a utility like wireshark to dig into it.

Bayan Safadi

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Thanx for taking your time reading my question , i've already tried to check using wireshark with open vpn and without but i didnt understand anything XD .

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