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Setting up DNS for load balancer in AWS China

I have a classic load balancer for a web server in AWS China. I want to set up a DNS record so that mydomain.cn gets redirected to the public address of the load balancer. There is no Route 53 service in China, so I was thinking that I could use…
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How to speed up connection with a server in China

I have a EC2 server in China using Amazon AWS China. It's a server with : Apache 2 and PHP The database is a RDS instance running MySQL (also in china) The problem: Access from out of China is very slow. (tested from australia, france and Canada).…
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BIND9: "message parsing failed: FORMERR"

my BIND 9.10.3 is logging strange entries like: Jan 12 12:44:49 www named[24776]: client 117.136.25.126#18977: message parsing failed: FORMERR Jan 12 12:50:47 www named[24776]: client 117.136.25.126#18978: message parsing failed: FORMERR Jan 12…
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OpenVPN connection out of China

I'm working on a project that utilizes embedded Linux devices which are communicating home via a OpenVPN session which is initiated by the embedded device. This set up is obviously not working in China. Several debugging sessions showed that the…
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Chinese Firewall DDoS and IPtables not working

Recently my server has been hit with DDoS's coming from the Great Chinese Firewall. As per the advice in one of the replies in mod_security block requests by http-host header, and the advice in…
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Encrypted Email and Proxy to Bypass the Great Firewall

I have some friends travelling to China, and they would like to get email, use Skype, and browse the web without the fear of the government looking over their shoulder. My first thought is to set up an encrypted proxy for them to use for internet…
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AWS API Gateway in China

We are planning to launch an app that will be available globally, including China and we plan to use AWS for this. However, because of the "Great Firewall of China" we may run into problems: The app may not be permitted to connect to an API…
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DNS registrar - Not all the people in china can reach my site

I have some websites on the cloud (Rackspace for that matter), and I manage their DNS using Route53 (the domain is registered on GoDaddy if it matters). The thing is that those websites are targeted to the Chinese community, and we know that some of…
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Better routing path to reduce network latency to China

When I am at home (comcast internet infrastructure), the packets go to either the att backbone router or the greatoaks.ca router and then cross the ocean to China CNC backbone router (219.158/16). This path is extremely slow due to high latency and…
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Which hosting provider for website whose audience spans China's Great Firewall?

We are building a website which will have a large proportion of its audience in mainland China. Another large proportion of the site's audience will be outside China. We estimate the split to be approx 60% China, 40% overseas, so we cannot ignore…
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Website deployment to China

I'm trying to deploy a website to Azure China. I just downloaded the publish profile from my Azure China account and use Visual Studio to deploy via Web Deploy using the profile, stock standard. It used to work. But most of the time I'm getting an…
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Organizational Access To Google Apps From China

I was tasked in deploying Google Apps for business and I have multiple offices in China which has to be on it. Anyone knows how can I bypass china's deep packet inspection? Given my company's health Mpls is very expensive now. Constantly…
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Slow Website Access from China

I just made a wordpress based website for a client that operates in China. The website is being cached completely by W3 Total Cache and served very fast in Europe (where our main server is located). But my customer told me that if he visits the…
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)" bot in China regularly starts HTTP downloads

Since about two months, a software package (~20 MiB, .tar.gz) we host on AWS is downloaded ~600 times a day by somebody using the bogus UA string from the title. The HTTP referrer is set to a legitimate page that contains a link to that download. I…
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Separate server IP addresses to support multiple routes in China

I am told that there are two major (only?) ISP in China - China Telecom (CT) and China Unicom (CU) - and that traffic routed between the two is really slow, almost as bad as traffic that has to cross the Great Firewall. To work around this problem,…
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