Oracle, Amazon, and Google provide VMs within their free tiers. There are a number of shell-only providers out there too (e.g. SDF) that you could conceivably use for SSH forwarding. On 18/04/2022 14:43, Ryan via aur-general wrote:

Many VPS providers have cheap "starter" plans at $3-4 per month that you can use to self-host your own. It's not ideal, but it might be your only solution.

-------- Original Message -------- On Apr 18, 2022, 09:24, eNV25 via aur-general wrote:

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Hi

My firewall is restrictive and won't allow outgoing traffic on tcp/22.

github.com and gitlab.com both provide alternative addresses that use tcp/443. Is there something like this for AUR?

I know I can just use a general proxy, but I don't have access to another network or computer to host my own, and all public VPNs and proxies that work in this network are slow.

Thanks eNV25

On 22-04-18 17:50, aur--- via aur-general wrote:

As slow as it is, have you tried using Tor, you are only pushing pulling PKGBUILD files, not gigabytes of data.

Offtopic; does the AUR or any part of Arch offer .onion services?

I don't think we do, is there actually any interest in this? -- George Rawlinson

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 08:45:10AM -0400, tom@tswartz.net wrote:

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 08:16:10AM +0000, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote:

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On 22-04-18 17:50, aur--- via aur-general wrote:

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As slow as it is, have you tried using Tor, you are only pushing pulling PKGBUILD files, not gigabytes of data.

Offtopic; does the AUR or any part of Arch offer .onion services?

I don't think we do, is there actually any interest in this?

-- George Rawlinson

I had raised this back in 2015 and the suggestion was shot down pretty hard back then. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-June/030939.html

However, there were some useful suggestions last time around: It may be possible to use the following by itself, or in combination with a VPS as others have mentioned. http://gitolite.com/git-over-proxy.html

Fortunately, I'm no longer in a position where this is necessary for my own work, though I too recall the difficulty in sharing packages with tcp/22 closed/blocked/inaccessible.

I'm hopeful that with the latest changes to AUR and with some new TU's in the group, perhaps some opinions have changed to reconsider this option.

Cheers, -- Tom Swartz

Apologies, to be clear; I had raised the issue about ssh on tcp/443; not the .onion services. Incidentally, I have also found my old AUR bug report/feature request about the same, and (at the time) did not appear to be a difficult feature to implement: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45364 I have no idea how it stands currently, 6.5 years later. Cheers, -- Tom Swartz

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 08:34:10PM +0530, eNV25 wrote:

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 6:25 PM tom--- via aur-general <aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

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Apologies, to be clear; I had raised the issue about ssh on tcp/443; not the .onion services.

Incidentally, I have also found my old AUR bug report/feature request about the same, and (at the time) did not appear to be a difficult feature to implement: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45364 I have no idea how it stands currently, 6.5 years later.

Cheers,

-- Tom Swartz

This bug report is a bit confusing because it talks about "SSH over HTTPS" or "Git over HTTPS".

Indeed. This was my mistake in confusing the terms those years ago.

What I mean is making the SSH server listen on an additional endpoint (eg. ssh.aur.archlinux.org:443). This should only need some kind of TCP forwarding or proxying.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/02/18/gitlab-dot-com-now-supports-an-alte... https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/troubleshooting-ssh/using-ssh-over...

The end result is indeed what you describe above, I simply had difficulty explaining the request at the time. -- Tom Swartz