VPN Problems Recently?

[GAVVIE]

So many acronymns..VPN,PPTP,Open ports,TCP etc etc. Must be a genius to understand it all? Anyway I got a VPN now,basically to download music from Youtube. I had been thinking that maybe some officials have shares in some of these busineses. How many foreigners in China @ about $85-00 a shot? How much would a good hacker cost to hack some of these offending/tracking sites I wonder. All we need is to check our emails and browse the net,albeit on the slow side.

[Federico]

Today I can’t use VPN in PPTP protocol…

[Pardhu]

I have some problem too with my vpn today!

[Federico]

I suggest this VPN service that offer SSH protocol:

useSSH VPN

[Ben]

I’m still not seeing any issues with my PPTP VPN.

Federico – I’m confused as to what these SSH + VPN services offer. Do they offer you dynamic port forwarding though SSH so that you can create a socks proxy + PPTP VPN separately, or do they bind the pptp daemon port on the server to localhost through SSH?

EDIT: I’m guessing it’s the first as GRE won’t tunnel over SSH

[Federico]

Good question Ben, usually bind the pptp daemon port on the server to localhost through SSH, right?

I must ask I dont know…

[charles]

have y’all tried tis podvpn8 yet? just go give a shot…it was running like champ to me..

[Federico]

Another info: today if use internet line without VPN all ok, if i use this my connection on the router is stopped… I tried do this many times.

It’s possible that my provider check traffic activity and close me out?

[Federico]

Ben I want cry, check the answer of the support:

“Hello,

We only give email support now.

ssh sever is based on SSHD server.

pptp is based on PPTP server.”

-_-

[Ian]

I use freegate works fine.

[Federico]

I use freegate too, but sometimes it’s little slowly…

[Olsen]

Cloudnymous is another free but a bit slow alternative, and Kepard gives 30 free minutes per day and is fast – both still work fine.

[Federico]

Thank you Olsen! we can choose between a “storm” of vpn!

About useSSH vpn package PPTP vpn + SSHvpn, PPTP vpn is separately than ssh proxy.

[Ian]

Guardian article: China Tightens “Great Wall” Internet Control With New Technology

[Chris Ziich]

@Ian thanks for sharing the article

this is annoying and one of the major cons of living in China

[Charlie]

All this does is raise the value of VPNs in China. Nothing they do will ever extinguish the need for people to get on Facebook and Youtube – people will always find a way around it. This is like prohibition, what we have now is a gigantic “internet access black market” worth many millions of dollars.

I’m looking into SSH tunneling.

[Federico]

I’m looking for SSH service too…

[GAVVIE]

Can an IP address be physically traced? Is it really illegal to have a VPN?

SSH–Quick-Tip: SSH Tunneling Made Easy, by Frank Wiles

[Federico]

Isn’t illegal depend how to use it. Sure, an IP can to be traced…

This is the link that before Gavin shared with us:

http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html

[Charlie]

Quote:

Can an IP address be physically traced? Is it really illegal to have a VPN?

I’m not sure how feasible a trace is behind a VPN (Ben?). It’s illegal to “run a foreign-run VPN business in China” whatever that means. Since the servers aren’t in China, I don’t see how these businesses exist in China, or what being suddenly declared illegal actually means.

See this Global Times article (this is the English-language Party mouthpiece): Foreign-Run VPNs Illegal

[Author]

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