alex chiang: web 6.0

Net access here (Prague) is really slow, seems to be slowest in establishing new connections (and then decent once connection is established), but I don’t have enough networking-fu to figure out why (maybe DNS is slow or something).

Also, Google keeps trying to fake me out, sending me to localized versions of their pages, which is very annoying.

I was gnashing my teeth trying to figure out a solution when I realized I’m already ssh forwarding a local port to a squid server back in the States. And with some other magic, all I need to do is start up one ssh connection, and all the other ones are muxed through it, so you only pay the DNS lookup once, and from there on out, all your new connections are fast.

As an extra benefit, I don’t have to worry about my unencrypted http traffic getting sniffed by scary Eastern European hax0rs.