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. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk