Hello,guys. I have trouble in China now. I cannot visit facebook or youtube here. But i do have a lot of friends on facebook with my American friends . Please help me. I have heard that can using SSH tunneling or FreeVPN to let this work . I have been googled a lot but failed. could you help me get out of the bad networking here . Thanks a lot. But the way, I use RHEL5 and Windows 7 OS.

Hi,

If you have shell access to a *nix box outside of China (for example in the states)
you can simple use it to 'tunnel'your traffic via that box (ssh socks). otherwise,
some sort of vpn connection will suffice.

SSH 'tunnel'
linux: ssh -D6666 USERNAME@HOST
w$n: putty->connection->ssh->tunnels->dynamic

after successful auth, there will be process listening
on your box on specified port (6666 in this example)

after that you simply configure your network applications
(web browser for example) to use your host as a socks proxy
on the port above)


Good luck

Thanks your reply, but i don't have *nix box . Is there a freevpn works for it ?

Hello jack_green,
Though you do not have a Unix or Linux computer outside of China, you can create a free shell account and then set up your VPN tunnel from your computer to the foreign host. Here are some links to lists of free shell account providers, commercial providers, and some individual web sites that offer shell accounts. Some of them restrict outgoing network traffic from their servers, so you may have to experiment to find out what services, if any, they will proxy for you.

Lists of providers of free shell accounts:

http://shells.red-pill.eu/index.php?method=out
http://www.bylur.net/free/
http://aruljohn.com/freeshell/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Intern...s/Free_Shells/
http://www.wolfotakar.com/freeshell.htm
http://freenet.am/~gevorgn/shell.htm
http://freeshellaccounts.blogspot.com/

Individual shell account providers:

http://www.shellmix.com/
http://www.cjb.net/shell.html (CJB.net routes outgoing requests from their servers through Tor, "The onion router")
http://blinkenshell.org/wiki/SSH
http://sdf.org/

This organization will proxy web traffic for free only if you are using the Lynx text-based browser:

http://www.arbornet.org/free_shell_accounts.php

The following page lists shell account providers that offer paid shell services:

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Intern...ell_Providers/

Good luck to you.

Have you tried Ultrasurf? It seems to bypass most restrictions.

Thanks so much, i have tried it but i don't know how . do you have tutorial for me , i am not very good at linux

Thanks your reply. But it's my first time to heard Ultrasurf. I have googled it but it didnot work in China. I cannot search it in google

jack_green,
If you can get to this report, it may be worth reading. It's published by Freedom House. Several censorship circumvention tools are mentioned. Of from zero to five stars possible, Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/) is the only one Chinese users rate at five stars. Various others rate four stars, like Dynaweb (http://us.dongtaiwang.com/home_en.php), "Your Freedom" (http://www.your-freedom.net/), Ultra Surf (http://www.ultrareach.com/), and Freegate (http://us.dongtaiwang.com/dmirror/ht...nc.us/freegate).

http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&report=97

Also, you should consider using the encrypted version of Google at https://encrypted.google.com/.

Here are some other suggestions as to how you can use Google features.

Google Cache:
A user can access Google's cache servers to gather blocked content. To see the pointer to the cached content, the user needs to reach the Google search engine (so Google must not be blocked for this method to work).

Google Reader:
Google offers users the possibility to subscribe to news feeds through Google Reader, which gathers data on the user's behalf (it acts like a proxy), and lets the user read it through the Gmail web interface.

Google Translate:
Google’s translation service can be used to gather blocked content. By setting the source language to something different from what it is, and setting the target language to the actual source language.

Please note that some of the circumvention tools above make it possible for you to access content, but do not prevent your surfing attempts from being traced back to you. Read as much as you reasonably can (without risking punishment for merely reading ABOUT circumvention, never mind carrying out such circumvention), assess the risk of punishment, and do not send illegal information outside your country unless it's absolutely necessary.

jack_green,
Here is a Chinese-language site offering several versions of Ultra Surf:

http://www.wujieliulan.com/download.htm

You still need to get an SSH shell account with a provider that allows outbound traffic at their end of the tunnel ("ssh -D 1080 user@provider.com").

Thanks so much. But I cannot open this link in China

Thanks so much. But those websites are blocked here. And it seems that I got problem for visiting linuxquestions.org website . always timeout