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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by cnanon on Sunday September 27, 2009 @03:40AM (#846643)
I fear the future. Once countries start compiling a blacklist of secure VPN providers worldwide and block these IP segments. Everyone will start building their own VPNs on SliceHost / Linode / RackSpace Cloud Servers. Then these countries (China) will start blocking SliceHost / Linode / <insert your fav VPS provider here>

I don't care much about using Twitter / Facebook / social apps. I have no doubt that I'll become a victim from further IP blocking. I won't be surprised to find my website on SliceHost GFW'd in China in the near future.

As I do most of my online business with China, hopefully a Chinese company will duplicate SliceHost's services here.

- UUuMing

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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by jhancock on Sunday September 27, 2009 @03:13AM (#846619)
Although some services like StrongVPN may be convenient, the solution I've relied on over the years is doing my own tunnel through my own server in the U.S. I usually use a dedicated server in the U.S. But this works with just about anything you have SSH access with. Just run SSH from the command line like "ssh -CND 9999 <your_server_name_in_your_ssh_config>" and setup FoxyProxy (Firefox extension) to use port 9999 (choose any high port you like) for the SOCKS tunnel.

There was a blog post making the rounds a month or so ago promoting another VPN/proxy service similar to StrongVPN. All I could think was all those poor non-techies will sign up for this and it will soon get blocked. You are correct that the GFW will not block port 443 for ALL IPs. So your little unknown server serving up SSH connects on 443 (I don't use that port) is the safest bet you've got.

This has been a big year for anniversaries in China. It will be interesting to see if things ease up soon.

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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by jaaron on Sunday September 27, 2009 @04:22AM (#846675)
Tor is blocked as well:

* http://cubiclemuses.com/cm/articles/2009/09/27/tor-blocked-i...

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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by cnanon on Sunday September 27, 2009 @03:50AM (#846648)
Ah.. finally! StrongVPN's OpenVPN Client can connect to HK server now. Not sure who changed what on which side (China ISP vs StrongVPN) but I'm glad it's working now!
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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by jaaron on Sunday September 27, 2009 @04:23AM (#846678)
Where are you connecting from? I'm in Guangzhou. Tor was down this morning (haven't checked recently).
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Re:StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears by cnanon on Sunday September 27, 2009 @04:42AM (#846690)
Connecting from Xian City, Shaanxi Province. It's been on and off the past 3 days.

My connection is fine now but I foresee VPN outages anytime without warnings.

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