Google access?
From Beijing, access to www.google.com has been spotty the last 36 hours from my home DSL connection, and is now completely inaccessible. Hope it’s just a temporary glitch, but will try it from other connections around Beijing later. This might be related to a famous upcoming anniversary.
UPDATE (12:40pm) – Seems this is not isolated. Tests from a coffee shop with a public Internet terminal (a) and hotel with open wifi (b) show similar results in Beijing, and is confirmed by various reports from others in Shanghai and Guangdong – “www.google.com.” is inaccessible in significant parts of the PRC. Curiously, no other major search engines are affected, and “www.google.cn”, “news.google.com” and “mail.google.com” are accessible.
(a) IP: 222.128.xxx.xxx
ASN: 4814 [CHINA169-BBN (CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Broadband Network)]
Near: Beijing, Guangdong(b) IP: 218.106.xxx.xxx
ASN: 17620 [CNCGROUP-BJ (CNCGROUP IP network of Beijing region MAN network)]
Near: Beijing, Guangdong
Caveat: Results are coming from Beijing and one particular ISP (CNC). Results may vary by locale and provider. One person pointed out that this might just be an accidental glitch in the installation of a new phase of the Great Firewall. As you can see, diagnosing the GFW is particularly tough.
UPDATE (1:00pm) – Added “www.google.cn” to list of OK sites. Tuned the wording, adding, “in significant parts of the PRC.”
UPDATE (1:50pm) – A workaround has been found for now. The problem is that “www.google.com.” resolves like this when using CNC’s name server (using the dig utility):
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 603287 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com. 79 IN CNAME www-china.l.google.com.
www-china.l.google.com. 25 IN A 66.249.89.99
That IP address is the problem as something (GFW?) breaks the connection when the HTTP headers are being sent back to your browser. However, if you do a DNS lookup of “www.google.com.” outside of China, you’ll find other addresses. The following two worked for “Google English”:
Try these two, and it should work.
UPDATE (2:30pm) – For now, it appears “http://www.google.com” works again, as the 66.249.89.99 IP address seems to go through. Keep those two IP addresses above handy though.
UPDATE (2:55pm) – Though “www.google.com” is back, seems that “news.google.com” is now inaccessible with the headers problem. In advance of the fourth of this month, I’m sure there will be other ups/downs for web sites outside the PRC.
UPDATE (3:00pm) – Seems both “www.google.com” and “news.google.com” are inaccessible. The “hack” above for using the raw IPs will get you to “www.google.com” but to access Google News, you will have to hack your hosts file (Windows) or /etc/hosts file (Mac and Linux). Put an entry like this:
216.239.37.104 news.google.com
into the appropriate place in your operating system. See the following directions: for Windows and Mac. (The 216.239.37.99 address above seems to be inaccessible now).
June 1st, 2006 04:52
To access virtual hosts on an IP I find that FireFox’s modify headers plugin works great (http://modifyheaders.mozdev.org/). Just add a host header for the domain you want then visit the IP in your browser. (name=host value=news.google.com).
June 4th, 2006 19:56
[...] To recap – on May 28, I documented how to use Gmail in https secure mode. Then starting just before the fourth of this month, I reported on the widespread outage of http://www.google.com and a hack to get around it by using the naked IP address of Google’s US servers. [...]
June 5th, 2006 10:33
[...] The Google brownout is now on day five, and Andrew Lih has a nice post that explains some of the mechanics of what is happening to connections to Google.com here in China. I’m curious as to why the access remains off-and-on rather than continuously off, but the end effect means I’m having to proxy in when using Gmail. [...]
June 6th, 2006 06:04
[...] Even Google, who compromise to offered its Chinese search engine services in censored and uncensored version simultaneously are no exception from the powerful censor. Many areas in mainland China have reported failures to connect to Google in the past few days, while the censored and China-hosted Google.cn is still available. Andrew Lih has blogged a stories about it. Shizhao also warned that people be careful using Google Desktop, since the application robots will crawl sensitive news from websites like BBC, causing the Great Firewall to trigger off. [...]
June 8th, 2006 08:54
[...] Still, there was a particular problem with Google. Andrew Lih has done very solid tracking of the problem here and here. China Web 2.0 Review, meanwhile, notes that Chinese users were frustrated with Google over the inaccessibility of the uncensored site.: Difficulty in accessing Google: From a week ago, Chinese internet users in north China started to encounter difficulty in accessing Google and other service as Gmail. Will Google.com finally become inaccessible, and all the traffic has to change to Google.cn? On the other hand, Chinese bloggers are discontented with Google China’s official blog, since it did not have any explanation on the issues. [...]
June 9th, 2006 18:38
[...] Since many folks have pointed to my early report and workarounds, for completeness I should report that Google is back to “normal” reachability status in Beijing as of a few days ago. And by normal, I mean the normal GFW keyword and URL filtering is still in place. [...]
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