Wasn't today the activation day for the DNS switcher virus?

Which appears to match the symptoms here.

-Chris

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On 10/07/2012, at 7:31 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, good to know that it is not completely blocked. It is likely that
> there are multiple FirewallOps across China regions and the (I think)
> 3 ISPs (China Telecom, China Mobile and Unicom).
> 
> As I mentioned, the edgecast address couldn't be reached, but the
> akamai one could.
> 
> I am personally in downtown Shanghai, using China Unicom's "Fiber To
> The Building".
> 
> I am seen as 58.246.154.81 from the outside at the moment, can reach
> your a978.g1.akamai.net, but not wpc.829D.edgecastcdn.net.
> 
> I can also VPN to Beijing, to a 163.com datacenter (which I think is a
> China Telecom subsidiary), having IP number 60.191.221.179. From
> there, both hosts above are reachable.
> 
> So, yes, it seems to be regionalized or per ISP (which makes this less
> of a problem than I thought). I also mentioned that I am personally on
> VPN and I am not really affected, but developers I have met are not
> willing to pay for that service and don't have it.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Niclas
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Brian Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Niclas,
>> We are seeing a lot of traffic to Central from China, so this certainly
>> isn't a case of the Great Firewall blocking everything, rather it seems a
>> little more localized. Can you send more more info about your source ip and
>> geo location that we could use to see what's up? Possibly we can get the
>> traffic routed to a China friendly ip.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Brian E. Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Nicolas, this isn't intentional of course. Let me see what I can dig up
>>> based in your traces.
>>> 
>>> --Brian (mobile)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> (I am not subscribed, so please CC me on any responses)
>>>> 
>>>> I live in China. I normally have a VPN enabled to circumvent various
>>>> blocking (YouTube, Twitter, ++) that the Chinese government has in
>>>> place. I normally don't think much about it. But, today I had my
>>>> computer rebooted and couldn't build a project, because Maven Central
>>>> couldn't be reached.
>>>> 
>>>> So, before I realized that my VPN wasn't running I tracerouted a bit.
>>>> 
>>>> repo1 resolved to
>>>> 
>>>> niclas:~ niclas$ dig repo1.maven.org | grep "^[a-z]"
>>>> repo1.maven.org.    1751    IN    CNAME    central.maven.org.
>>>> central.maven.org.    212    IN    CNAME    central02.maven.org.
>>>> central02.maven.org.    7112    IN    CNAME    wpc.829D.edgecastcdn.net.
>>>> wpc.829D.edgecastcdn.net. 3164    IN    CNAME
>>>> gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net.
>>>> gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net. 2292    IN    A    68.232.45.253
>>>> 
>>>> and from that I also tried central01
>>>> 
>>>> niclas:~ niclas$ dig central01.maven.org | grep "^[a-z]"
>>>> central01.maven.org.    6477    IN    CNAME
>>>> central01.maven.org.edgesuite.net.
>>>> central01.maven.org.edgesuite.net. 20877 IN CNAME a978.g1.akamai.net.
>>>> a978.g1.akamai.net.    4    IN    A    124.40.42.31
>>>> a978.g1.akamai.net.    4    IN    A    124.40.42.6
>>>> 
>>>> And with tracerouting both (see below), it struck me that VPN might
>>>> not be enabled and the IP on "edgecastcdn.net" is probably blocked by
>>>> China potentially serving something they don't like, could be
>>>> anything... Yeah, China is BAD, we all know that, but shouldn't we
>>>> (Apache) try to minimize the problem for your ordinary Chinese
>>>> developer, could be a student, hobbyist, small entrepreneur and so on,
>>>> who isn't anti-government (most people here are quite content with the
>>>> government) to be able to use Apache projects?
>>>> 
>>>> The fact is now, that without reasonably reliable access to Maven
>>>> Central, one can not really participate in many, many of the Java
>>>> projects at ASF.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know how the DNS and host resolution is supposed to work, who
>>>> is participating in the hosting and under what terms. But I think
>>>> Maven/Sonatype should have in its interest to NOT EXCLUDE some
>>>> staggering amount of Java programmers, and perhaps try to find a way
>>>> to get a better SLA here. If you need help from someone to check "from
>>>> the inside the Great Firewall", just let me know...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Niclas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> traceroute to gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net (68.232.45.253), 64 hops max, 52
>>>> byte packets
>>>> 1  192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1)  1.446 ms  0.980 ms  0.900 ms
>>>> 2  58.246.152.1 (58.246.152.1)  9.855 ms  11.724 ms  8.662 ms
>>>> 3  210.22.67.29 (210.22.67.29)  9.563 ms  3.698 ms  1.712 ms
>>>> 4  112.64.251.165 (112.64.251.165)  1.696 ms  1.819 ms  3.215 ms
>>>> 5  * * *
>>>> 6  * * *
>>>> 7  * * *
>>>> 8  * * *
>>>> 9  * * *
>>>> 10  * * *
>>>> 11  * * *
>>>> 12  * * *
>>>> 13  * * *
>>>> 14  * * *
>>>> 15  * * *
>>>> 16  * * *
>>>> 17  * * *
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> niclas:qi4j-sdk niclas$ traceroute  central01.maven.org
>>>> traceroute: Warning: central01.maven.org has multiple addresses; using
>>>> 209.107.203.19
>>>> traceroute to a978.g1.akamai.net (209.107.203.19), 64 hops max, 52 byte
>>>> packets
>>>> 1  192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1)  1.681 ms  0.910 ms  0.889 ms
>>>> 2  58.246.152.1 (58.246.152.1)  14.958 ms  14.339 ms  115.382 ms
>>>> 3  112.64.251.133 (112.64.251.133)  3.516 ms  2.892 ms  1.682 ms
>>>> 4  112.64.251.165 (112.64.251.165)  2.117 ms  1.934 ms  1.926 ms
>>>> 5  112.64.243.170 (112.64.243.170)  3.859 ms  8.432 ms  4.110 ms
>>>> 6  * * *
>>>> 7  219.158.9.209 (219.158.9.209)  4.284 ms  3.517 ms  6.284 ms
>>>> 8  219.158.100.194 (219.158.100.194)  32.392 ms  34.428 ms  32.079 ms
>>>> 9  219.158.96.230 (219.158.96.230)  33.214 ms  33.501 ms  33.470 ms
>>>> 10  219.158.96.222 (219.158.96.222)  31.660 ms  31.564 ms  33.370 ms
>>>> 11  sl-st30-sj-0-4-3-3.sprintlink.net (144.228.111.29)  214.116 ms
>>>> 466.648 ms  503.740 ms
>>>> 12  sl-st31-sj-0-12-0-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.33)  180.679 ms
>>>>   sl-st31-sj-0-8-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.29)  214.923 ms  231.186
>>>> ms
>>>> 13  144.232.8.194 (144.232.8.194)  522.103 ms  381.628 ms  221.618 ms
>>>> 14  te0-0-0-3.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.109)  219.036 ms
>>>>   te0-3-0-3.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.101)  184.460 ms
>>>>   te0-1-0-0.ccr21.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.53)  305.247 ms
>>>> 15  te0-3-0-2.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.149)  614.732 ms
>>>>   te0-1-0-0.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.83.253)  216.883 ms
>>>>   te0-1-0-3.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.237)  450.823 ms
>>>> 16  te9-3.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.82.154)  662.795 ms
>>>>   154.54.85.25 (154.54.85.25)  189.819 ms
>>>>   te7-8.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.198)  888.842 ms
>>>> 17  te4-1.mpd01.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.69)  693.184 ms
>>>>   te9-6.mpd01.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.82.150)  190.542 ms *
>>>> 18  38.104.84.130 (38.104.84.130)  781.037 ms
>>>>   38.104.84.126 (38.104.84.126)  425.045 ms
>>>>   38.104.84.130 (38.104.84.130)  643.349 ms
>>>> 19  te8-2-3580.bbr1.lax1.bandcon.com (69.16.190.214)  189.074 ms
>>>> 189.148 ms  193.641 ms
>>>> 20  209.107.203.19 (209.107.203.19)  629.087 ms  412.329 ms  225.912 ms
>>>> 
>>>> --
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>>>> http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
>>>> 
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