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A friend of a friend from Beijing said github works for him (~2 minutes ago). I'm actually flying there on Wednesday, let's see how it goes :)
As a developer from China, I can tell you that I am furious now. The bottom line has long been that sites such as Github.com & etc are not blocked. This is no longer true...
Seriously? (I say this as someone living in Shanghai now, who has lived here for the last 10 years). Github was your bottom line?
The DNS like this:https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y4oa364kb1s1is/wireshark-dns.png It forged a response with the IP 59.24.3.173 before the really response(199.59.148.82)
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Yeah, I know. Anyone else at the HN meetup at Abbey Road? I'm thewhite guy with glasses, a beer, laptop and a receding hairline.
The next HN meetup will be held on February 21, after the Chinese New Year: http://shanghaihn.org/
I believe the blocking is directly related to an automated train ticket polling plugin that had brought down Github just days ago. Due to upcoming Chinese New Year, newly released train tickets are sold within minutes. That plugin introduces huge traffic to already crumbling ticket vending site, and it has obviously made railroad bureau angry. Blocking Github makes that plugin immediately malfunction because it makes…
Do you have a link to a news article or something that explains all this?
Ouch, but maybe solvable... Confirmed from Beijing. Thought it was the internet connectivity in the office that failed, but same at home. Did a traceroute and this reveals an expected result. It is really the DNS which returns a wrong value '59.24.3.173' instead of the expected '207.97.227.239', so it looks like a dns poisoning attempt or some other dns issue. Editing your /etc/hosts file or using opendns can help in…
This might have to do with the a ticket polling (bashing) application since during this time it is hard to get tickets for the train due to the yearly mass migration for spring festival. It referred to assets hosted on github pages.
It's kind of ironic, as open source is a pretty socialist idea in the first place (not that China is socialist, but it's supposed to be).
Hmmm...I can access github from Beijing without any problems... (I am using Google's DNS servers)
