Re: [liberationtech] Iraq block Social media

2014-06-14 Thread Brian Conley
I spoke with a colleague today briefly via Facebook. He is in Kirkuk and told me he had serious difficulties finding a connection in the city. I can't speak to technical reasons, but have colleagues there And elsewhere in Iraq with good tech know how. I'm happy to help test and assess if anyone

Re: [liberationtech] Iraq block Social media

2014-06-14 Thread Collin Anderson
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM, David Gessel ges...@blackrosetech.com 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

Re: [liberationtech] Iraq block Social media

2014-06-14 Thread Collin Anderson
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,

Re: [liberationtech] Iraq block Social media

2014-06-14 Thread Christian Huldt
so should we promote the use of 173.252.110.27 or tor? 2014-06-14 20:59, Collin Anderson skrev: Anyone who wants to verify this assertion can query in-country resolvers filternet$ dig facebook.com http://facebook.com @ns1.itc.iq http://ns1.itc.iq ; DiG 9.8.3-P1 facebook.com