From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:42:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj1wxh6i.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a8twsk70.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
Hi,
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> It's not trivial when you live in China :)
>>>
>>> I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but
>>> it involves a lot of cursing and grinding my teeth. In a hostile network
>>> environment any client will face the same problems, but the lack of
>>> threading becomes pretty apparent here.
>>
>> I don't know what the great firewall is like, but for "hostile networks"
>> around here (universities blocking git, airports blocking smtp/imap etc),
>> I use openvpn. Are commercial openvpn provides blocked in China?
>
> Both commercial providers, and non-commercial providers! I set up my own
> OpenVPN server on a US server, and that worked for a couple of years.
> Then they caught it, and I switched to a non-standard port. That worked
> for another four months or so, and now it doesn't work on any port. I'm
> sure OpenVPN traffic is pretty easily sniffable.
But what if you use TCP 443? That should be hard to detect, though speed
might not be great... I guess https is OK in China.
First link from startpage.com:
https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/5919/how-to-hide-openvpn-traffic-an-introduction/
> My next project is ipsec (another broken-leg project). But I figure, if
> I can google up these solutions, so can they, and the packet signatures
> of all these different systems must be quite identifiable.
Isn't ipsec as less popular version of Tor? BTW: I tried Tor again in the
weekend since a relative was asking about it. Speed seems to have gotten
a lot better (I'm in EU).
> Using vanilla ssh seems fairly reliable: for the time being, I don't
> think they'd go so far as to block ssh across the board. That would
> really be declaring war on the internet. So sshuttle, tunnels, and the
> built-in ssh SOCKS proxy are serving me well. Using dnscrypt-proxy
> actually solves many of the problems -- in years past, it would have
> solved everything, but they've started hell-banning IP ranges, and of
> course that includes gmail. My own dumb fault for using gmail, I guess.
The problem for me with socks is that it doesn't allow arbitrary port
connections (I mostly deal with bad network configs, e.g. closed XMPP or
git ports).
> How off-topic can we get? :)
It's interesting. And +30°C. It's fineeee! Thanks for sharing!
Rasmus
--
May the Force be with you
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 12:43 [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice? Xebar Saram
2015-08-06 12:50 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-06 13:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-06 14:31 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-06 16:50 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-08-06 17:21 ` Xebar Saram
2015-08-06 20:45 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-06 15:59 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-06 23:51 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-08-08 3:38 ` Peter Salazar
2015-08-11 10:04 ` Fabrice Popineau
2015-08-11 12:23 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-11 12:30 ` Fabrice Popineau
2015-08-11 12:38 ` Rasmus
2015-08-11 12:35 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-08-11 13:20 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-11 13:53 ` Scott Randby
2015-08-11 14:16 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-11 14:38 ` Xebar Saram
2015-08-11 14:51 ` Scott Randby
2015-08-12 3:13 ` Peter Salazar
2015-08-12 4:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 8:34 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 9:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 9:35 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 13:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 22:42 ` Rasmus [this message]
2015-08-13 2:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-11 13:22 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-15 7:37 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 12:35 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-18 16:36 ` Bastien
2015-08-11 14:00 ` Gerald Wildgruber
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