Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election

Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by out_of_protocol on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:06AM (#24154257)

internet is restored, for now. There could be some ways to bypass blocking (e.g. SSH tunnel via TCP works just fine, unlike all popular proxy protocols), needs more investigation. Until next time then :/

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Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by justinclift on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:02AM (#24185694)

Ahhh. With SSH working you have options. :)

If it happens again (but SSH still works), then to enable general web browsing you can:

1. Set up Squid (a proxy server) on a remote host. eg a VM in Digital Ocean. You may need to ask someone to do this for you, if you don't have a VM you can access remotely already.

2. Configure SSH to proxy traffic from your (desktop) web browser to that remote Squid server

3. Configure your browser (eg Firefox/Chrome) to use the new SSH proxy

It sounds like you're familiar with the Linux or macOS command line, so you shouldn't have much trouble.

I've done exactly this before, and it works reliably. Browsing speed is a bit slower than standard though, but not horrible. :)

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Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by out_of_protocol on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:13PM (#24252875)

UPD: new "no internet thing". (Because: http://lon-screenshots.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-08-23_v.mp4 ) They are learning. _mobile_ internet is blocked completely, no dns/icmp/udp/ssh/http/https/etc is going through, landline is operational but could be blocked as well on a whim

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