Nepal and proxies

[Sean Crago]

To clarify one point, these folk also NAT/don't have a nice fat block
of IPs from ARPA yet. This is fairly common in the third world, but
complicates testing for a transparent proxy.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Sean Crago <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm finally online at home, some 29 days in to my two year tour with
> State in Kathmandu. Town's nice, when the garbage men are running and
> the fuel tankers aren't. Otherwise it's hazardous to walk and the
> traffic's a bit a much, especially near the gas stations with their
> WW2-style rationing.
>
> On a more LUG-relevant note, the new ISP seems to be running some sort
> of Squid proxy, according to some "that host ain't responding" errors
> that explicitly stated they were coming from a Squid install. If they
> are running an HTTPS proxy as well then I am extremely nervous - Would
> anyone care to share a simple test to determine whether or not they
> are and, if possible, simple ways to bypass a transparent proxy?
> Bandwidth is scarce in Nepal, but I'm a touch more concerned about
> protecting my privacy than limiting my bandwidth consumption.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>

To clarify