already running on port 922. allwinner's own engineers use vpns a lot because they need access to resources that normally aren't accessible, so the situation's a bit different. running over common ports, great idea. thx joe.
On 10/10/16, joem <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
