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How To Use Proxy In China?

Why can't I use an SSH SOCKS proxy to access Youtube in China?

  • I have set up an SSH SOCKS proxy through my university server in the US. I know it is working because I get noticeably better access to US websites banned in China, like Dropbox, the NY Times, and the US version of Google. However, I still can't access Youtube or Facebook. I am wondering why this is; I previously thought data passing through the proxy would be encrypted, so the firewall shouldn't be able to tell which websites you're accessing, but this is apparently not the case? I am interested in the technical issues (especially with regards to how the encryption works), not in advice about how to get access in China.

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why my proxy socks server cannot connect to youtube?

Vahid Simintan

I'm able to SSH SOCKS tunnel to my server in Hong Kong although it's occasionally unstable if I try to push too much data through it (e.g. downloading a lot of online video) possibly because they monitor and limit the amount of encrypted traffic over a particular IP/port. It's very possible, then, that you're experiencing a problem getting proper DNS resolution. I would recommend installing DNSCrypt, a free encrypted DNS service by OpenDNS. You can download it here: https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/ This encrypts your DNS queries so that there is no DNS cache poisoning or GFW blocks for domain name resolution. If you're a Chrome user, I would also recommend installing the Switchy Sharp plug-in that allows you to configure your SOCKS proxy on a domain-by-domain or regex pattern match basis. This helps to limit the total amount of traffic you send over to your relatively slower proxy server.

Stephen Wang

Did you make sure to have the DNS requests go over the SOCKS proxy too? By default on most browsers, DNS requests do not go over the proxy (even though the rest of the data do), and instead go over the normal Internet connection. For example, in Firefox, to make DNS requests go over the proxy, you need to go into about:config and change the "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" setting to true.

Xuan Luo

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