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  • #43358
    Avatar photoCharlie
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    Someone sent me this link just now: China just blocked thousands of websites

    The Chinese censorship authorities have DNS poisoned *edgecastcdn.net, which means all subdomains of edgecastcdn.net are blocked in China. EdgeCast is one of the largest Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in the world and provides its cloud services to thousands of websites and apps in China.

    This is very concerning.

    #43368
    Avatar photomuell
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    This is very concerning.

    I totally agree. The worst thing is: This isn’t only happening in China, but it’s a global trend. I’m really worried about the future of the internet. Lots of people just don’t understand what we will lose if the free internet disappears.

    Not sure about this one though, just checked addons.mozilla and it still works without vpn.

    #43377
    Avatar photoCharlie
    Keymaster

    I totally agree. The worst thing is: This isn’t only happening in China, but it’s a global trend. I’m really worried about the future of the internet.

    What do you mean, blocking websites in general? I heard that the UK blocks torrent sites but otherwise it seems like only authoritarian states like China and Iran who really block massive parts of the internet.

    #43409
    Avatar photomuell
    Participant

    I was talking about a global trend for restricting the internet which often but not in all countries also includes outright blocking websites and domains. A “good” example of a non-authoritarian western state is Australia. There was even a proposal to introduce Chinese style censorship on the ISP level, but I’m not sure if that ever became law.

    Enemies of the Internet according to reporters without borders (Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship#Around_the_world):

    #43411
    Avatar photoBrendan
    Moderator

    I don’t think there’s any question the internet is the new battleground for population control (beyond television), with content control effectively being one and the same as far as use of technologies are concerned.

    Interestingly I just ran a ‘namebench’ test last night and the results are quite detailed as far as DNS performance go. Find it here: https://code.google.com/p/namebench/wiki/UsingNameBench

    That test will take a few hours, but will check against thousands of sites using your own servers, whilst concurrently providing alternatives (with a speed comparison rating).

    I notice the U.S. is still looking to extradite Kim Dotcom: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-brands-kim-dotcom-fugitive-spies-others-141120/

    #43415
    Avatar photopikachu
    Participant

    damn, they blocked a website i use for research :/

    #43425
    Avatar photoCharlie
    Keymaster

    I was talking about a global trend for restricting the internet which often but not in all countries also includes outright blocking websites and domains.

    Good point. I had heard about the UK censoring porn sites, and a lot of countries are censoring torrent websites in particular. Once you block anything on the internet it becomes a slippery slope.

    Interestingly I just ran a ‘namebench’ test last night and the results are quite detailed as far as DNS performance go. Find it here: https://code.google.com/p/namebench/wiki/UsingNameBench That test will take a few hours, but will check against thousands of sites using your own servers, whilst concurrently providing alternatives (with a speed comparison rating).

    So this will suggest a faster DNS server for to use? Has it made a big difference for you?

    damn, they blocked a website i use for research :/

    The list is always growing. VPNs are increasingly unreliable, also. I have several VPNs set up on my Mac and I am constantly switching between them because none of them are reliable 100% of the time. It’s infuriating.

    #43434
    Avatar photoBrendan
    Moderator

    So this will suggest a faster DNS server for to use?

    Yes, that’s exactly what it did. It came back with 5 servers that ranged (in the test) from between 48% and 67% faster than my existing (2) DNS servers that were provided via my VPN account. Interestingly I ran a leak test on those 2 prior to running namebench to verify that they were performing correctly. They were.

    Has it made a big difference for you?

    That’s what makes the leak test interesting, as so far having configured to the new suggested servers I’m seeing no failing page loads as before. No doubt this will last for a few days or so as usual, before slowing to the pace of a one legged half dead rat with a USB stick strapped to it’s back, and I’ll have to go searching for internet service solution #4,722.

    Thanks China.

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