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haoel/haoel.github.io
A detailed Chinese-language guide for self-hosting a VPN/proxy server to bypass the Great Firewall of China. Written by the late Chen Hao (左耳朵耗子), a well-known Chinese developer, it covers VPS selection, Gost HTTPS proxy setup, Clash configuration, transparent gateway setups for routers and Raspberry Pi, and AWS network topology. The target audience is technically proficient Chinese developers who want to control their own infrastructure rather than rely on shared 'airport' services.
The Gost + HTTPS traffic masquerading approach is genuinely clever — wrapping proxy traffic in standard TLS makes it nearly indistinguishable from web traffic at the network layer, and the probe_resist parameter adds real detection resistance. The Clash configuration examples are thorough, covering DNS leak prevention, fake-ip mode for Netflix, and rule-based routing that only proxies what needs to go through. The transparent gateway sections (both OpenWRT router and Raspberry Pi sidecar) are well-designed architecturally and include the iptables rules needed to actually make them work. The Kubernetes CoreDNS fix for the sequential DNS resolver policy is the kind of hard-won operational detail you usually only find buried in GitHub issues.
The repo hasn't been updated since May 2023 and several sections are already stale — Clash's main repository was taken down by the author in late 2023, so the download links and references are dead ends. The Ubuntu 18.04 install script in /scripts is explicitly flagged as potentially broken and unmaintained. The Cloudflare WARP section warns its own instructions may be out of date. There's no English content, which limits its reach to Chinese-speaking developers, and the project's primary value is now archival rather than operational since most of the referenced tooling has moved or changed.