[plug] Web access *FROM* China

[Senectus .]

On Apr 4, 2005 7:46 AM, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> We have a family friend who is currently working in China with who we
> can communicate fine by Skype (to the same iinet address as the
> webserver sits on).  However, when she tried to access my webserver
> (iinet dynamic adsl - holiday photos and school work for her son), she
> gets a not_found.  This includes dyndns, ip number and iinet URL.
> Needless to say, the site works fine locally (http://wdk.dyndns.org)
> whenever I access it externally from anywhere in Perth in the past (and
> tested by GET'ing from a remote server yesterday, also in Perth)
> 
> I suspect blocking as I dont even see a packet hitting the firewall for
> any of the possible addresses - is this reasonable?  I know there are
> plenty of other possible explanations, but has anyone experienced
> something similar, or can comment (likely/unlikely to be the cause)?
> 
This is not unusual...
I've got a couple of customers that have similar problems when they
travel to China.
I don't think it's port blocking either I believe they block whole IP ranges..


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