I'm in China behind the Great Firewall using a VPN service provided by a friend so didn't get blocked in the VPN crackdown in January 2015.
Since VPN can slow down traffic a lot I'd like to only route the blocked sites through VPN and access unblocked sites directly.
(A less well known effect of the GFW is that all non-China traffic is often slowed to a crawl, which affects the traffic to and from the VPN in my friend's country.)
I'm interested in any approach:
- Some smart tool re-routes sites that fail to load through VPN to retry them.
- Some service provides a blacklist/whitelist of blocked/unblocked sites on the GFW and some tool queries the service to set up the routing.
- I have to manually set up a route somehow for each blocked site to go through VPN, and all other traffic goes direct.
- I have to manually set up a route somehow for each non-blocked site to avoid the VPN, and all other traffic goes via VPN.