Are you talking about during the shutdown from January 5 to January 11? I thought that it was almost everything blocked at that time, nothing targeted towards VPNs specifically. In that situation, a homemade VPN and a commercial VPN will be equally ineffective. There were only a few things that worked at that time, but none of them is part of any common VPN protocol: Уроки, вынесенные из отключения интернета в Казахстане в январе 2022 года для обхода цензуры.