[split] Chinese firewall

[RichardGv]

Well, it's definitely an interesting project. But you mentioned befor that it was super-unstable, why is that? How well does it work in praxis? I mean, wouldn't it miss some of the first packets when ie. browsing youtube (end up getting a corrupted video), or is that taken into account for?

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The reasons that is unstable include:

1. There isn't a full list of IPs that needs special treatments available. Sites like YouTube uses too many different IPs.
   
2. Fingerprints of the fake DNS responses can change (and do change) frequently, so the anti-DNS-poisoning component may often break.
   
3. There could be other technical limitations that I don't know.
   

And the project has some major limitations, too, which I forgot to mention in the last reply:

1. It cannot bypass a direct IP block. No technique can be used to bypass it, except for proxies. And a great of number of sites are blocked in this way, including Twitter.
   
2. If the server does not explicitly follow RFC standards, it will possibly break connections. (Which is the reason the developers decided to use a predefined IP list for "zhang" and "cui".
   

In practice, at least at the time I tried it (10 months ago or so), it's not really practically usable, unless you can bear meeting a connection reset every some 20 seconds. Other people seems able to access Facebook, YouTube, and Blogger with it, moderately well, but I was not so lucky. I never successfully watched a YouTube video with it, since there's always something broken on the page. Probably it's caused by an incomplete IP blacklist.

By the way, the mod tools are invisible for me, somehow...