Well it was worth seeing how concerned people are to such matters.
Now back to open egypt...


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Rayna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Ahmed, for repeating all over again what has been said and tested
> from elsewhere out of Egypt... :)
>
>
>
> 2013/2/17 Ahmed El-Ezabi <[email protected]>
>
>> Again everybody, this seems not to be related with anything in Egypt
>>
>> tcptraceroute openvpn.net 80
>> Selected device eth0, address 192.168.1.3, port 56331 for outgoing packets
>> Tracing the path to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150) on TCP port 80 (http),
>> 30 hops max
>>  1  192.168.1.1  0.336 ms  0.168 ms  0.190 ms
>>  2  NASR4-R02C-C-EG (163.121.171.51)  10.730 ms  9.776 ms  9.263 ms
>>  3  host-163.121.211.134.tedata.net (163.121.211.134)  9.282 ms  9.686
>> ms  11.975 ms
>>  4  host-163.121.211.134.tedata.net (163.121.211.134)  9.995 ms  11.950
>> ms  9.753 ms
>>  5  host-163.121.229.37.tedata.net (163.121.229.37)  13.972 ms  12.126
>> ms  12.242 ms
>>  6  10.42.0.3  11.237 ms  10.275 ms  10.956 ms
>>  7  10.32.8.107  10.055 ms  11.950 ms  9.988 ms
>>  8  213.242.116.13  122.859 ms  66.891 ms  66.952 ms
>>  9  * * *
>> 10  ae-23-23.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.126)  171.805 ms  147.086
>> ms  147.050 ms
>> 11  ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54)  149.887 ms
>>  150.062 ms  149.599 ms
>> 12  ae-72-72.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.150)  146.399 ms
>>  146.370 ms  146.533 ms
>> 13  * ae-2-70.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.82) 144.499 ms
>>  145.212 ms
>> 14  SOFTLAYER-T.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.53.116.66)  147.304 ms
>>  150.459 ms  148.490 ms
>> 15  ae7.bbr02.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.195)  144.878 ms
>>  149.512 ms  147.478 ms
>> 16  ae1.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.155)  165.508 ms
>>  164.161 ms  163.520 ms
>> 17  ae1.bbr02.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.131)  195.270 ms
>>  193.631 ms  196.005 ms
>> 18  ae7.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.168)  198.753 ms
>>  198.302 ms  198.470 ms
>> 19  ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144)  331.605 ms
>>  223.560 ms  226.579 ms
>> 20  ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199)  225.111 ms
>>  225.040 ms  240.154 ms
>> 21  po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134)  222.635 ms
>>  224.517 ms  223.403 ms
>> 22  * * *
>> 23  * * *
>>
>> So the connection drops after leaving Egypt
>>
>> So maybe because we are very alert in this regard that any unreachable
>> website puts us in a panic mode :-D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Ahmed El-Ezabi <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I just came home and checked, the issue is local, here is the result
>>> from a US based server:
>>>
>>> telnet openvpn.net 80
>>> Trying 67.228.116.150...
>>> Connected to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150).
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>>
>>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course the connection is closed because I sent a non http request (CR)
>>>
>>> While locally from a TEData DSL:
>>> telnet openvpn.net 80
>>> Trying 67.228.116.150...
>>>
>>> telnet: connect to address 67.228.116.150: Connection timed out
>>> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
>>>
>>> Sill unable to determine the exact reason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Muhammad Emam <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Rayna,
>>>> Would you please let me know which ISP are you using?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Rayna <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Additional info: not sure what the issue is but one can connect to
>>>>> openvpn.net sometimes. When I ssh to some virtual machine, it allows
>>>>> me to wget ... or not. Also, sometimes the wget works, sometimes it
>>>>> doesn't. The IP address that sends the last hop response (the traceroute
>>>>> log) is openvpn.net home so to speak (its IP is 67.228.116.150).
>>>>>
>>>>> So -- at least, thus far -- it does not seem to be the govt blocking
>>>>> it: it just has issues on its end, in other countries...
>>>>>
>>>>> Rayna
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2013/2/17 Rayna <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure the traceroute tells you something about blocking. Fact is a
>>>>>> traceroute with various options & through different ports (80, 22) from
>>>>>> Paris stops at exactly the same point (somewhere within the US, guessing
>>>>>> around Seattle). They may just have issues there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rayna
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2013/2/17 Mostafa Hussein <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can't connect to openvpn.net .. connection times out. However this
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> my traceroute, I am using Noor DSL.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am not an expert in this but seems that traceroute reaches a server
>>>>>>> in Dallas, Texas and the dies.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> M.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ traceroute openvpn.net
>>>>>>> traceroute to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte
>>>>>>> packets
>>>>>>>  1  192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1)  3.866 ms  3.832 ms  3.816 ms
>>>>>>>  2  bng.rams.ca (217.139.253.19)  41.483 ms  41.476 ms  46.727 ms
>>>>>>>  3  172.17.10.98 (172.17.10.98)  67.476 ms  67.478 ms 172.17.10.102
>>>>>>> (172.17.10.102)  67.422 ms
>>>>>>>  4  host-41.33.173.69.tedata.net (41.33.173.69)  67.415 ms  67.393
>>>>>>> ms  67.339 ms
>>>>>>>  5  213.242.116.13 (213.242.116.13)  98.646 ms  98.664 ms
>>>>>>> 213.242.116.9 (213.242.116.9)  104.711 ms
>>>>>>>  6  * * *
>>>>>>>  7  ae-23-23.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.126)  219.404 ms
>>>>>>> ae-21-21.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.118)  222.331 ms
>>>>>>> ae-23-23.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.126)  228.058 ms
>>>>>>>  8  ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54)  229.909 ms
>>>>>>> ae-43-43.ebr2.washington1.level3.net (4.69.137.58)  231.914 ms
>>>>>>> 235.401 ms
>>>>>>>  9  ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154)  237.785 ms
>>>>>>> 243.621 ms  247.265 ms
>>>>>>> 10  ae-3-80.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.146)  255.760 ms
>>>>>>> ae-2-70.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.82)  259.259 ms
>>>>>>> ae-1-60.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.18)  262.997 ms
>>>>>>> 11  softlayer-t.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.53.116.66)  264.969
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  266.859 ms  175.538 ms
>>>>>>> 12  ae7.bbr02.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.195)  175.523
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  175.510 ms  222.325 ms
>>>>>>> 13  ae1.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.155)  228.545
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  233.709 ms  239.805 ms
>>>>>>> 14  ae1.bbr02.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.131)  248.538
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  248.575 ms  248.562 ms
>>>>>>> 15  ae7.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.168)  248.508
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  253.250 ms  253.249 ms
>>>>>>> 16  ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144)  262.679
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>>  262.703 ms  262.690 ms
>>>>>>> 17  ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199)  236.509
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>> ae0.dar02.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.159)  236.474 ms
>>>>>>> ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199)  240.017 ms
>>>>>>> 18  po2.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.138)  234.613
>>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>> po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134)  244.078 ms
>>>>>>> 237.931 ms
>>>>>>> 19  * * *
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> 30  * * *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ahmed Kamal
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > meh! but that doesn't even make much sense, as openvpn.net is not
>>>>>>> a public vpn endpoint
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> openvpn.net is blocked in Egypt. this can mean lots of things..
>>>>>>> larger blocking coming?
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> seems that google issue is getting serious
>>>>>>> >>
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>>>>>>> >> Ahmed Mekkawy
>>>>>>> >> Founder | CTO
>>>>>>> >> www.SpirulaSystems.com
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