Tunnel requests to geolocation sensitive services

Objectives

• Transparent
• Only changes to border router supported by most consumer routers
• Support Hulu, Pandora and Netflix
• Available for all users
• Fallback on failure

Hardware

Router : DG834GT (Sky Router)

Resolver : DNS - WRT54GL or Hastur

Remote Resolver : Yuggoth

Fallback Resolver : Google DNS, OpenDNS

Solutions

• Local Resolver runs dnsmasq
• Remote Resolver runs haproxy?

• Clients configured with: Gateway : PerimeterRouter

  DNS : Resolver, Fallback Resolver

• Client requests name resolution of Geoloc Service from Hastur

  • Local Resolver forwards to Remote Resolver
  • Remote Resolver proxies connection to Geoloc Service
• Client requests name resolution of non-Geoloc Service from Hastur
  • Local Resolver forwards to Fallback Resolver

Guides

• http://trick77.com/2014/03/01/tunlr-style-dns-unblocking-pandora-netflix-hulu-et-al/
• https://github.com/corporate-gadfly/Tunlr-Clone

Links

• OpenVPN client on OpenWRT
• OpenVPN, Ubuntu and Hulu
• SSH tunnel