DIY VPN for China

SoundsGood · 22 Jul 2017 at 18:27

Does anyone have any experience with VPNs running through The Great Firewall?

From what I've read OpenVPN currently works but will be blocked soon or in 2018.

I am looking at running OpenVPN with the new tls-crypt feature over port 443/tcp

Does this seem like a good solution?

skyripper · 22 Jul 2017 at 19:24

Can't comment on the technicalities of it, but if you're aiming to bypass the controls put in place by an oppressive regime, you need to think hard before you do it. It's not something I'd consider just to watch Game of Thrones. You might have more luck with the technical side in Networks & Internet though.

mid_gen · 22 Jul 2017 at 19:42

You won't need a VPN to pirate Game Of Thrones in China

Admittedly a few years since I was working in China regularly but never had any trouble with OpenVPN. Most hotel WiFi has VPN tunnels so Facebook etc works. It's not as oppressive as all that.

SoundsGood · 22 Jul 2017 at 23:37

I've looked at this some more and found evidence tls-crypt feature does not bypass GFW (the great firewall). I also can't find an IOS client for it

Instead shadowsocks seems to be the go to option, and its very easy to setup.

If this fails I'll try obfsproxy but it looks difficult to setup on mobile devices

HoneyBadger · 23 Jul 2017 at 20:20

Our CEO regularly visits China and has no problem with VPN. We run a Fortigate appliance that has IPSEC and SSL VPN. They run customised ports but work fine.