The network team confirmed that this is only Unicom with the issue. They
are looking at alternate routes that would hopefully work.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM, 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
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
> >> > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
> >> >
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