Anyone who wants to verify this assertion can query in-country resolvers filternet$ dig facebook.com @ns1.itc.iq
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> facebook.com @ns1.itc.iq ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13340 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;facebook.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: facebook.com. 86400 IN A 185.23.153.235 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: facebook.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.itc.iq. ;; Query time: 1250 msec ;; SERVER: 185.23.153.242#53(185.23.153.242) ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 14 14:44:58 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 70 On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Collin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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