When I travel to asia (manila), I notice not so much that there is a GFW type firewall preventing the connections, but rather that alot of web sites are just fi

When I travel to asia (manila), I notice not so much that there is a GFW type firewall preventing the connections, but rather that alot of web sites are just firewalling all of APNIC netblocks. So many web sites, in fact, that the quickest solution for me is to setup squid proxy on an IP in the US and generally everything works flawless after that.