I'm posting this here because at the moment I cannot easily use
lighthouseapp.
This is yet another China firewall issue.  merb.lighthouseapp.com is
the intended way to get to this project.  Cool, I like the approach.
But subdomains are generally not replicated by default in China's DNS
system.  We really need alternate project home links like
lighthouseapp.com/project/merb.  This would work with the China DNS
system.

To give a second example, my google apps mail should be accessible
from mail.shellshadow.com.  All is set up correctly for this and from
the U.S. it routes just fine.  But inside China I have to use
mail.google.com/a/shellshadow.com to get to my home page.  This sort
of thing is only getting tighter over here.  Best to start to
understand the limitations that web app with global exposure will have
from within China.

Also know that changing IP addresses with your servers can cause long
term disruptions with China's DNS system catching up to the change.
This type of IP "hopping" is going to happen more and more as its easy
to move services to different server in the cloud.  A smart admin will
simply think he can do the move and change a DNS record or two and
within a few hours, the entire internet is back on track.  This is
simply not true for how China receives and updates DNS changes.

I would report this problem on lighthouse now, but I can only login to
the gitx lighthouse project (I did this by finding a message reply
link in one of the emails lighthouse sent me.  That link didn't have
the gitx subdomain prefix so I could get to the page and then login.
But after login, I try to get to the general lighthouse forums page
(so I could report this problem in a more appropriate forum) and it
doesn't recognize my existing login and attempts to re-login from this
general forum do not work when using the sam id/password that allowed
my to login to the gitx project.

Its all a bit odd.  In addition to this oddity, I notice that the
lighthouseapp.com home page has links to sign-up, but not a link to
sign-in.

So my point is that navigation and sgn-in in lighthouse seems to be
project centric with the precondition that you can get to the
suibdomain page, which of course, at least for now, in China you
cannot.

So I'm hoping there is someone on thie merb group that can get me in
direct contact with a lighthouse person so I can better explain these
URL, subdomain, and signin needs unique to users inside China.

thanks, Jon
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