Freegate Old Version
Karleen Chura
Freegate is a software application developed by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) that enables internet users to view websites blocked by their governments. The program takes advantage of a range of proxy servers called Dynaweb. This allows users to bypass Internet firewalls that block web sites by using DIT's Peer-to-peer (P2P)-like proxy network system.[1][failed verification] FreeGate's anti-censorship capability is further enhanced by a new, unique[2] encryption and compression algorithm in the versions of 6.33 and above.[3] Dynamic Internet Technology estimates Freegate had 200,000 users in 2004.[1] The maintainer and CEO of DIT is Bill Xia.[4]
Freegate was one of a dozen circumvention tools evaluated by a Freedom House-funded report based on user experience from China in 2010, which include Hotspot Shield, Tor, Ultra Surf.[5] The tool is free to download.[6]
DynaWeb is a collection of anti-censorship services provided by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT). DynaWeb is a web-based anti-censorship portal. Once users point their web browser at one of the DynaWeb URLs, a web page will be presented similar to the original, with most blocked websites as links. In addition, a user can type in any URL in the box on this page and DynaWeb will fetch the pages for him or her instantly. No software is needed, nor are any settings tweaked on a user's computer. Since the Chinese net police watch DynaWeb's portal websites closely and block them as soon as they identify them, DynaWeb must be dynamic. It has hundreds of mirror sites at any time, and each with a varying IP and DNS domain names to defeat IP blocking and DNS hijacking. On the backend, DynaWeb also has mechanisms to proactively monitor the blocking status of each of its mirror sites, and as soon as blocking is detected, it will change the IP and DNS domain name instantly.[3]
To keep users connected to such a dynamic infrastructure, DynaWeb has a variety of channels to keep users updated. For example, a user can send a message to one of DynaWeb's instant messenger (IM) accounts, and will get an instant reply showing the newest addresses of DynaWeb portals. Similar things are being done with emails. By these many, dynamic channels, DynaWeb outsmarts any attempt to collect all DynaWeb addresses by the censors, because each user receives only a (different) subset of DynaWeb's addresses. Automatic blocking detection combined with quick reaction apparently frustrates the blocking efforts on the China side of the Great Firewall of China (GFW).[3]
DIT was founded in 2001 to provide email delivery services to China for US government agencies and NGOs. In 2002, DIT started to provide anti-censorship services under the framework of DynaWeb, and like UltraSurf, DynaWeb became a top contender of the GFW-penetration effort.[3]
Freegate was created by Falun Gong practitioners[7] and has been financed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US governmental agency.[8][9][10][11][12] Freegate also receives funding from Human Rights in China,[9] which is also one of its clients[13] and which receives some funding from the American non-profit organization the National Endowment for Democracy.[14] According to a US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, the US government gave funding of $685,000 to Freegate in 2005.[15]
In 2004, the Financial Times, citing a member of staff at Symantec in mainland China, reported that Norton AntiVirus identified Freegate as a Trojan horse. There were initial fears that the reports may be a ploy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities to encourage removal of the software from computers,[16] but it was soon delisted as a threat. Symantec explained that its detection was based on the software operating similarly to various Trojan horses, based on the use of proxies to penetrate firewalls used to block web sites, but that it had modified its detection to exclude Freegate.[1]
In 2013, it was reported that "pro-government electronic actors" in Syria sent electronic messages to rebels encouraging them to download a file named Freegate which was claimed to be designed to help dissidents circumvent state surveillance agencies, but actually it was a malware and the intruder was able to monitor what the victims were typing on their computers and read or remove the files.[17]
In August 2013 while Freegate was testing a new proxy program, some people thought it was a phishing attack. Reports from Iran said the users who used Freegate to pass Internet censorship in Iran, were led to a fake page instead of Facebook's main website. Freegate published a note saying they were testing a new proxy program, and the fake Facebook page was a tunnel. Although IT experts warned users to be careful with the tunnel link because it doesn't use SSL security so users' information is not encrypted.[18]
I am using uTorrent version 2.2.1 build 25534I have downloaded a few torrents from a site which both the site and its trackers are filtered in my country
Now i have tried solving this problem by using a VPN that bypassed the filter which solved the errors on the tracker, but even after that the torrents speed remains at zero !
In the end after a lot of experiment i found that running a Proxy such as FreeGate solves the problem ! and the torrents work without a problem.
Now here are the a couple of questions :
1- Why is it that even when using the VPN my torrents don't download even when the tracker is green and connected ?
2- After checking the settings in the utorrent, i can clearly see that there are no indication that the torrent should be using the FreeGate (freegate is a socks proxy which and only works if u set the IP and The port inside a program), of course FreeGate does change the internet explorer proxy setting
3- In the end i am sure that the torrents are not downloaded using FreeGate ! but it seems something is using this FreeGate proxy which makes the tracker work ! i want to know what it is and how it works.
Did you check the port forwarding in the router ? couldn't it be because freegate configured it for you ? In the absence of port forwarding on both side (all sender and receiver), the communication will be blocked.
You will get a file with the extension .zip, which you have to extract first. Right-click on the downloaded file and select "Extract All", then click on the button "Extract". The resulting file is about 1.5 MB. The name of the executable file may look like a short series of letters and numbers (e.g. "fg707p.exe").
When the secure tunnel has started successfully, you will see the Freegate status Window and a new instance of the Internet Explorer will open automatically with the URL " =409" loaded, depending on your version and language. This is the confirmation that you are using Freegate correctly through an encrypted tunnel.
If you want to use another application with Freegate (for example the Firefox Web browser or the Pidgin instant messaging client), you will have to configure them to use Freegate as a proxy server. The IP is 127.0.0.1, and the port is 8580.
Under the Settings tab in Freegate, you can choose your interface language from English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Farsi and Spanish. Under Status, you can track your upload/download traffic through the Freegate network. The Server tab allows you to pick from several severs, one of which may be faster than your current connection.
I'm using @battlehawk77's schedule. I've had a Lufthansa 747 landing on 07R. When I gave the taxi instruction, the reply was: "Negative! A departing airplane is blocking the gate. Handle that plane first."
There was an open gate at that part of the apron (between N11 and N15 - you can see it in the second screenshot), but obviously not for a heavy. And there was no departing plane to handle in that area. So the 747 was stuck there, and I ultimately got a penalty for the wait, because there was no departure from there opening a gate suitable for a heavy (only for a medium jet) in the next five minutes.
I thought it was the latter. I've seen this issue on very rare occasions at other airports, but EDDF is the first airport where I've seen this issue reported by multiple people on multiple occasions (I believe it has been mentioned on both Steam and Discord). Hopefully it is an airport issue, otherwise it won't get fixed.
Since the controller has no control over gate assignments (not sure we even know the gate that this plane is/was supposed to go to), there's nothing we can do to rectify the situation (other than deleting the plane) despite what the error message says. It's obviously a bug or scenario that is not being handled correctly. So, what's it gonna be FeelThere? Potentially fixed in an SP or possibly a next version item? Either way, it would be nice to hear what scenario causes this issue.
I did notice a "new" error message I've never seen before associated with "term_B11" in the log file (knot offset error). Not sure if it is significant because a plane appeared to use that gate during the session.
I'm curious @DeltaVII, are you using a full schedule versus a snippet? The large number of airplane dropped and no free terminal messages would indicate a full schedule which just magnifies the gate availability issues prevalent with this version. Not saying a snippet is the solution to the above at all, but it could help the overall experience of @battlehawk77's labor of love. By the time the session ended there were 20+ flights circling the Frankfurt area waiting for a gate to open up. ?
It does check that there is will be a free gate before it starts the incoming flight. In this case it looks like DLH441 intended to go to the gate that DLH6 freed up by asking for a pushback. The game however doesn't lock the plane to that gate, it just unlocks that gate.
After a plane lands, and is told to taxi to terminal, it creates a list of ALL free gates that it's allowed to go to and picks one randomly, with gates for it's own CAT being twice as likely to be selected than the others. However, this means that CATI or CATII planes could end up in CATIII gates, thus using up all available CATIII gates while leaving lower CAT gates open that incoming CATIII planes can't go to. Or a CATIII plane, that could have gone into a gate that only they are allowed at, could end up at a mixed CATIII gate making any incoming CATIII plane to no longer have a gate available that they are allowed to go to.
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