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As a developer from China, I can tell you that I am furious now. The bottom line has long been that sites such as Github.com & etc are not blocked. This is no longer true...
Seriously? (I say this as someone living in Shanghai now, who has lived here for the last 10 years). Github was your bottom line?
I just returned to China after most of a year. The VPN stuff has gotten much worse. Tor is banned, new wacky Tor is banned. My work VPN (OpenVPN based, not publicly listed or used by anyone else) appears blocked (though it worked a couple of days back on a different link; I have a theory this is China Unicom vs. China Telecom landlines).
I am presently exploring IPSec/PPTP/SSH+PPP style solutions. Can anyone save me time here and tell me what is likely to be the most reliable? OpenVPN has been my mainstay in the past and it is now too much trouble here.
SSH+PPP is looking good from a low-latency, port-hopping, unlikely-to-be-blocked perspective, but figuring out how to get a client for that up in OSX is driving me nuts.
You can't survive in China without a stable VPN connection.
You can't survive in China without a closed homebrew tunnel protocol.
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The next HN meetup will be held on February 21, after the Chinese New Year: http://shanghaihn.org/
Anyone know if there's an organized HN meetup in Beijing?
The guy organizing it doesn't seem to be around anymore, but could shoot him an email to check.
I'm not sure how any developer survives in China without a VPN, so this is probably one of the least vulnerable groups. On the other hand, any deployment strategies that depend on github are going to be hosed. I no longer live in China. Internet issues are a bit reason for that.
There are tools that make it easy to work disconnected. Ruby On Rails is one, because of its one-stop-shop nature and its easy-to-download docs.
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I was unable to open http://openhack.github.com (also on github pages) so it seems to be targeted.
Yeah, this is happening because I specify the A Name record for the in-the-attic.com domain, if I hit gkwelding.github.com which is the github page itself then it's also blocked. Looks like some DNS FUBAR'ness is occurring somewhere.
Confirmed in Yunnan. I just returned to China after most of a year. The VPN stuff has gotten much worse. Tor is banned, new wacky Tor is banned. My work VPN (OpenVPN based, not publicly listed or used by anyone else) appears blocked (though it worked a couple of days back on a different link; I have a theory this is China Unicom vs. China Telecom landlines). I am presently exploring IPSec/PPTP/SSH+PPP style solutions…