Nepal and proxies

[Geoffrion, Ron P [IT]]

You have service in Klandathu? Count your lucky stars!

http://www.universeguide.com/Planet/Klandathu.php

Klandathu is a rocky planet situated on the other side of the Galaxy to us. It is inhabited by bugs that have started an interstellar war with Earth. All the fighting takes place on this planet.


Thanks,

Ron Geoffrion
913.488.7664

-----Original Message-----
From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf Of Sean Crago
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:28 AM
To: KCLUG
Subject: Nepal and proxies

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
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