git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Help! My ISP blocks repo.or.cz. How to push changes?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2009, 01:46 UTC
Message-ID
<200901120246.28364.jnareb@gmail.com>

The ISP I use (Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., aka TP) made some unannounced changes for ADSL service (Neostrada) which made it block repo.or.cz (and of course its aliases, including git.or.cz where git wiki resides). It blocks also gimp.org and some Polish IRC servers (irc.freenode.org on which #git resides works O.K.). People speculate that this blocking was based on MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System, which is SPAM backwards) lists to fight SPAM and/or to block botnets, and uses null routing (IP based) blocking. I have no idea why repo.or.cz is blocked: gimp.org is supposedly blocked because it hosts irc.gimp.org on the same IP. By block I mean that even ping doesn't work (no reply at all).

I can access git wiki via one of many free HTTP proxies; currently I use http://www.4proxy.de so there are only slight problems there.

The problems is with fetching (via git:// protocol) of forks of git repository on repo.or.cz, and pushing (via SSH) to a few of my git repositories hosted on repo.or.cz.

Do you have any suggestions to bypass this block for git? I have access to Linux shell account (no root access, though) which doesn't have problems with repo.or.cz, so I think I could set up SSH tunnel: but how? And what to do with access via git:// - move to SSH too?

Thanks in advance
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/10789.aspx
Next: Alex Riesen
Message 1 of 13 in “Help! My ISP blocks repo.or.cz. How to push changes?”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  2. Alex RiesenJan 12, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  4. Luciano RochaJan 12, 2009
  5. Asheesh LaroiaJan 12, 2009
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  7. Asheesh LaroiaJan 13, 2009
  8. Mike HommeyJan 12, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  10. Markus HeidelbergJan 13, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 14, 2009
  12. Asheesh LaroiaJan 14, 2009
  13. Asheesh LaroiaJan 12, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.