[tor-dev] The Torouter and the DreamPlug

Ian Goldberg iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Jun 11 16:02:22 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:47:10PM +0200, tagnaq wrote:
> > Doesn't "make random people into public (middle-only) relays" have the
> > (well maybe not "problem", but "issue"?) that when GFW blocks them, they
> > (the random people who bought an Excito/etc.) won't be able to connect
> > to anything in .cn any more?  Although I don't _often_ connect to .cn
> > domains, it seems unfortunate to effectively auto-ban these people from
> > Chinese websites.
> 
> I did not experience any problems connecting to .cn while using a relay
> IP address. I think they are just blocking an IP:port combination and
> not the entire IP address.
> ...but things might change

Hmm.  I wonder what happens if the packets are fragmented so that the
TCP port information isn't in the first fragment...

   - Ian


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