I know GoAgent used to be a very popular proxy in China, and I believe it tunneled through Google Apps... Is it still popular (prior to this block I suppose) and does this mean it's now inaccessible?
-tom On 1 June 2014 18:58, Matthew Finkel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:07:02AM +0800, Percy Alpha wrote: >> *Google disrupted prior to Tiananmen Anniversary; Mirror sites enable >> uncensored access to information <https://en.greatfire.org/node/1030705>* >> >> Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently >> nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically. >> But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW(Great Firewall of >> China) began to severely disrupt Google search >> <https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk> by disrupting TCP >> connections to Google IPs. The block is indiscriminate as all Google >> services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This >> blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all >> other products. In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong >> <https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk> (China???s version of >> Google), Google.com <https://en.greatfire.org/www.google.com> and all other >> country specific versions. > > Hi Percy, > > Thanks for the update! Can you say how the block is implemented? It's > mentioned that TCP connections to Google IP addresses are disrupted, > which sounds like IP address blacklisting or DPI, but the blog post > also mentions: > > " > They can access Google directly using https://203.208.41.144 or > add the following content to hosts file. > > 203.208.41.144 www.google.com.hk > > 203.208.41.145 www.google.com.hk > " > > and that makes the block sound like DNS cache poisoning. Can you > describe what you see when you make a request? > > Thanks again, > Matt > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
