Another VPN provider confirming the problems (Score: 2, Informative) by renevith@pipedot.org on 2015-01-26 16:46 (#2WST) VyprVPN has mostly been blocked though apparently a few of their servers still work. Their blog post about it is unfortunately short on information: http://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/vyprvpn-server-issues-in-chinaI wonder what the endgame is for the Great Firewall. The tech-savvy are only fine with it because of how easy it is to punch through with a small amount of technical knowledge, but those holes are being closed. Two years ago I could use an SSH tunnel through my home computer. Last year that was blocked but VPN worked reasonably well, as long as I bounced around to different servers. This year I'm going to have to try something else. If China makes it practically impossible to use the outside internet securely, how will foreign businesses react? What about local nerds? What about the average people that just want to access foreign websites like Youtube, and previously used a simple browser add-on passed around from friend to friend? Re: Another VPN provider confirming the problems (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2016-05-19 07:57 (#1E8XE) The issue is not so much blocking VPN but interrupting it, effectively knocking you offline. they don't even need DPI. Just look at the traffic.. If you see someone sending all their data with SSH (or OpenVPN) headers out of a specific port, just kill the connection. Luckily they don't seem to focus on all types of packets and all ports at the same time. So one day SSH tunneled OpenVPN packets over port 465 seem to work while the same thing on 443 doesn't work, the next day it might be the opposite..Source: http://www.bestvpnprovider.com/china-vpn
Re: Another VPN provider confirming the problems (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2016-05-19 07:57 (#1E8XE) The issue is not so much blocking VPN but interrupting it, effectively knocking you offline. they don't even need DPI. Just look at the traffic.. If you see someone sending all their data with SSH (or OpenVPN) headers out of a specific port, just kill the connection. Luckily they don't seem to focus on all types of packets and all ports at the same time. So one day SSH tunneled OpenVPN packets over port 465 seem to work while the same thing on 443 doesn't work, the next day it might be the opposite..Source: http://www.bestvpnprovider.com/china-vpn