This is a little off-topic, but you CC:d the git list first. (-;
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
The ISP I use (Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., aka TP) made some
unannounced changes for ADSL service (Neostrada) which made it block
repo.or.cz (and of course its aliases, including git.or.cz where git
wiki resides). It blocks also gimp.org and some Polish IRC servers
(irc.freenode.org on which #git resides works O.K.). People speculate
that this blocking was based on MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System,
which is SPAM backwards) lists to fight SPAM and/or to block botnets,
and uses null routing (IP based) blocking. I have no idea why repo.or.cz
is blocked: gimp.org is supposedly blocked because it hosts
irc.gimp.org on the same IP. By block I mean that even ping doesn't
work (no reply at all).
That's horrifying.
I can access git wiki via one of many free HTTP proxies; currently I use
http://www.4proxy.de so there are only slight problems there.
The problems is with fetching (via git:// protocol) of forks of git
repository on repo.or.cz, and pushing (via SSH) to a few of my git
repositories hosted on repo.or.cz.
Do you have any suggestions to bypass this block for git? I have access
to Linux shell account (no root access, though) which doesn't have
problems with repo.or.cz, so I think I could set up SSH tunnel: but
how? And what to do with access via git:// - move to SSH too?
$ ssh -D 1080 user@host
In a a separate terminal:
$ cat > /tmp/tsocks.conf
# Here we have a config for tsocks that uses localhost:1080 as SOCKS5.
server = 127.0.0.1
# Server type defaults to 4 so we need to specify it as 5 for this one
server_type = 5
# The port defaults to 1080 but I've stated it here for clarity
server_port = 1080
^D
$ export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/tmp/tsocks.conf
$ tsocks lynx http://repo.or.cz/
You would need the 'tsocks' tool for your client system. Note that the
remote system doesn't need any configuration this way. Just prefix any
command-line operations that involve repo.or.cz with 'tsocks' and be sure
to set TSOCKS_CONF_FILE. (On a Windows machine, use putty's graphical SSH
client and FreeCap <http://www.freecap.ru/eng/>.
Once you have the 'ssh -D' tunnel running, you can use it in Firefox as a
SOCKS proxy: host = localhost, port = 1080.
-- Asheesh.
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