SSH to overseas server too slow?

UPDATE (2018-05-03):

I ended up using a BandWagon VPS as high volume traffic proxy with an AEAD encryption method and another faster one as a backup instead of those ssh forwarding stuff, it was unstable and quickly fallen only one month later and never be fast again.

The original post:

Use China mainland cloud server as a hop.

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ssh -v -N -L 2222:remote.oversea:2222  cloud.mainland

Then:

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ssh -p 2222 root@localhost

Or even mount as a local folder:

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sshfs -p 2222 root@localhost:/var/www/html ~/docker/nhweb -oauto_cache,reconnect,defer_permissions,noappledouble,negative_vncache,volname=nhweb

A few sweet ssh features to improve your development experience.

Expose local port to internet with a delegate:

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# Remote server
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# Append below content: 
# GatewayPorts yes

# Local
ssh -v -N -R *:9090:localhost:8080 cloud.mainland

Then heading to http://cloud.mainland:9090 for the results.

Ref:

Enable Google Drive file sync, on a Mac, in China

UPDATE (2018-05-03):

Another option is to use Surge for Mac, it just works, fantastically well!

Use Polipo to convert a socks connection into a http proxy.

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brew install polipo

Once you had polipo installed, config it to work properly with a polipo.proxy:

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socksParentProxy = "localhost:8089"
socksProxyType = socks5

proxyAddress = "::0"        # both IPv4 and IPv6
# allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.1/255

pmmFirstSize = 16384
pmmSize = 8192

And start polipo.

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polipo -c ./polipo.config

Then config Web Proxy (HTTP) & Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS) to 127.0.0.1:8123 (Settings -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxies -> Web Proxy (HTTP) -> OK -> Apply).

And you will get your Google Drive sync each changes on the fly.

For convenient, use our bash tool :)

Bash, OS X: pSet - a CLI, help you manage your OSX network settings.

Browse the Internet from China

Updates:

  • 2016-05-27 14:25:20
    • Docker enthusiast? (7MB/s)

Let’s talk about network. Chinese version.

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ssh -v -N -C -D 8089 -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=2048 rankun.org

One step further.

Before long, your will see a lot of error messages like this:

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debug1: Connection to port 8089 forwarding to socks port 0 requested.
debug1: channel 24: new [dynamic-tcpip]
debug1: channel 24: free: dynamic-tcpip, nchannels 35
debug1: Connection to port 8089 forwarding to socks port 0 requested.
debug1: channel 24: new [dynamic-tcpip]
debug1: channel 24: free: dynamic-tcpip, nchannels 35

Which means your just lost the connection to remote server, but you can use autossh to monitor and restart it.

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autossh -M 2000 -v -N -C -D 8089 -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=2048 rkus.rankun.org

3-tier forwarding

Idea: shadowsocks + port forwarding (ssh tunnel)

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# Start a ssserver in a server outside of China (here: listen on oversea:993)
ssserver -c /path/to/config.json

# Setup a Chinese Cloud server, connect to that ssserver (rkus.json pointing to oversea:993 and listen on cloud:993)
sslocal -c rkus.json

# Finally, connect to cloud server at local (socks on local:8089, local forwarding to cloud:993)
ssh -v -C -N -L 8089:localhost:993 cloud

# If you want the local ssh port forwarding to be auto restart, try autossh
autossh -M 2000 -v -C -N -L 8089:localhost:993 -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=2048 sax.mindfine.com

The result?

Might surprise you :-)

OK, attached the video ;)

Step closer to development:

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~/docker/nhweb on  master ⌚ 1:08:21
$ git push -uf origin master
Counting objects: 5993, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5698/5698), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5993/5993), 29.00 MiB | 5.17 MiB/s, done.
Total 5993 (delta 627), reused 1422 (delta 120)
To https://youdar@bitbucket.org/youdarnet/nanhai-wp.git
 + 1b34252...dc448a1 master -> master (forced update)
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

Push code to Bitbucket (that one, normally 10-20KB/s…) can be up to 6MB/s.

Test environment: 四川省 长城宽带…

Notes:

  • You will need 2 servers or at least ¥50 in your pocket to rent one.
  • Some Internet are bad enough, in such condition, you will need to use a AUTOSSH_POLL env to force autossh check the connection health more frequent. Let’s do a checking every 5 seconds!
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    export AUTOSSH_POLL=5 &&  autossh -M 2000 -v -g -C -N -L 8089:localhost:993 -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=2048 hz.youdar.net

Thank you for reading,
Regards,
Youdar