On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM, David Gessel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tested Facebook, youtube, google, and twitter and all loaded normally. > Traceroute showed no anomalies. > I believe that your testing is a bit off -- as of yesterday Earthlink was blocking social media, primarily (or entirely) through local DNS manipulation. This could account for the difference of your experience, and why users with foreign DNSs can still browse without other tools. Yesterday I ran Alexa's top 100k through a DNS resolver in country and found aberrant results for the following domains: facebook.com youtube.com twitter.com xnxx.com whatsapp.com viber.com youtu.be hanein.info The returned address for these domains briefly attributed the filtering to the security situation in country, until it was modified within a couple of hours: https://twitter.com/CDA/status/477488959044321280 If you have an Earthlink VPN, it might be interesting to see if you can browse to the RFC1918 address 192.168.222.66, I think it's the block page for that ISP. (Bonus points for a sending the domain of a porn site to Libtech) -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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