i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all.
the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :)
well done cisco! :)
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 07:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all.
the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :)
well done cisco! :)
Careful --- the great firewall of CN does not like VPNs and ssh tunnels and would block the IP address which means Allwinner's IP addresss if it keeps repeating the problems. So you can imagine the engineers or the ISP just turned it all off to help prevent a future problem. You can pop into HK for all your internet for a day, or get all your files transferred to SSD and carry one of those around. Also, instead of ssh, try ftp and telnet, and protocols over port 80, it may pose fewer problems as its not fully encrypted communications .
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:50 +0000, joem wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 07:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all.
the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :)
well done cisco! :)
Careful --- the great firewall of CN does not like VPNs and ssh tunnels and would block the IP address which means Allwinner's IP addresss if it keeps repeating the problems. So you can imagine the engineers or the ISP just turned it all off to help prevent a future problem. You can pop into HK for all your internet for a day, or get all your files transferred to SSD and carry one of those around. Also, instead of ssh, try ftp and telnet, and protocols over port 80, it may pose fewer problems as its not fully encrypted communications .
Just another thought - I remember using ssh over a different port number than 22. That worked. Then I used rsync with compression to transfer files because it was patient and retries and compresses. Try that from hotel.
already running on port 922. allwinner's own engineers use vpns a lot because they need access to resources that normally aren't accessible, so the situation's a bit different. running over common ports, great idea. thx joe.
On 10/10/16, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:50 +0000, joem wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 07:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all.
the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :)
well done cisco! :)
Careful --- the great firewall of CN does not like VPNs and ssh tunnels and would block the IP address which means Allwinner's IP addresss if it keeps repeating the problems. So you can imagine the engineers or the ISP just turned it all off to help prevent a future problem. You can pop into HK for all your internet for a day, or get all your files transferred to SSD and carry one of those around. Also, instead of ssh, try ftp and telnet, and protocols over port 80, it may pose fewer problems as its not fully encrypted communications .
Just another thought - I remember using ssh over a different port number than 22. That worked. Then I used rsync with compression to transfer files because it was patient and retries and compresses. Try that from hotel.
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the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
Hmm... I must say that I haven't spent much time fiddling with it, but when I was in Beijing last summer access to my OpenVPN server (sharing port with an https server) worked just fine. The only tricky part was that I needed to tunnel the DNS requests through the VPN as well (because apparently the local DNS would give bogus IP addresses for some services such as duckduckgo.com, IIRC).
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