VPN access being disabled in China

Re:VPN access being disabled in China by aneth4 on Sunday December 23, 2012 @02:50PM (#4960410)

I'm in Shanghai where I've lived off and on for 8 years. I've been using an ec2 image with Poptop installed. The problem is the IP addresses of the major vpns become known and blocked.

Any suggestions of software that would deploy images to various cloud services on behalf of users? I don't think China would be able to block all of ec2 and Rackspace, though they do sometimes seem to throttle ec2.

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Re:VPN access being disabled in China by ryan-c on Sunday December 23, 2012 @07:47PM (#4961326)

I hope you're aware that pptp connections (including via poptop) can be broken easily.

https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha...

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Re:VPN access being disabled in China by aneth4 on Monday December 24, 2012 @12:51AM (#4962024)

Thanks. Fortunately I don't really care if it's cracked - I only care if I can have access to the western internet, and that works just fine.

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Re:VPN access being disabled in China by newhouseb on Sunday December 23, 2012 @07:42PM (#4961309)

OpenVPN has an AMI that you can install on an EC2 Micro instance which works fine as long as OpenVPN in general works -- which unfortunately is no longer the case as of the past few weeks.

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