Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:20:25 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=BC=A0=E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6?= <weiwu@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China) Message-ID: <20061208122025.625606c9@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1165559159.8140.5.camel@joe.realss.com> References: <1165559159.8140.5.camel@joe.realss.com>
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--Sig_4JNaDChC2R+a5UmMCEz2FuC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =E5=BC=A0=E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6 <weiwu@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great > firewall of China: >=20 > 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; > 2) I run this command on my desktop: > $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; > 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line: > [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org >=20 > So my computer become a 'proxy'. >=20 > The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will > not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer. I think it would be a lot easier if you'd just install Tor (http://tor.eff.org/). If you use the security/tor-devel port, you can run it on your company's gateway and build an intercepting proxy with PF (or natd but I haven't tried that). This way you wouldn't have to touch the client systems at all. Currently the "great firewall of Wikipedia" prevents Tor users from contributing, but if you're only interested in reading, this shouldn't be a problem. Note that Tor doesn't hide the fact that you are using it. My understanding is that Tor usage is currently still legal in China (or at least not prosecuted) and quite popular there, but of course you should confirm that before you start using it on an IP address that can be traced back to you. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_4JNaDChC2R+a5UmMCEz2FuC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFeUqABYqIVf93VJ0RAs/JAJ9c71J2QxSa+V0miQMbc9iP0sGzlgCgs3ZQ YP+rBtA+KErqWS4WgEdSq4s= =OIcP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_4JNaDChC2R+a5UmMCEz2FuC--
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