Re: [BLUG] Did ATT mess up your cell phone, too?

2009/7/31 Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:25:40PM GMT, Jonathan North Washington [jonwashi@indiana.edu] said the following:
>>
>> On a slightly more on-topic note, and tie things together, I've been
>> having DNS issues with all wikipedia-related sites off and on
>> recently, and I called my ISP (megaline.kg???I'm in Kyrgyzstan for the
>> summer), and they checked it out, reporting "that site works fine for
>> us, and it's not one of the sites we block."  .....  Yeah.  But then
>> even in Australia they overtly block certain sites, iiuc.
>>
>
>  Do you know if their connection goes through China?

Interesting question—is there a nice linuxy way to find out?

(My assumption was that they were going through Russia—the economic
(maybe), political, and social ties are much stronger (plus the roads
are better;)—but one never can be sure with such assumptions.)

--
Jonathan

> Last time I
> checked, a lot of ISPs in Central Asia actually go through China to get
> to most of the rest of the world. And depending on what you are looking
> for, China may be blocking it. I don't really trust ISPs in Asia (and
> many other parts of the world) to know what they are doing. After all,
> many allow tons of hackers and spammers to prosper and they do almost
> nothing about it, plus they do stupid stuff like broadcast default
> routes for Youtube to go back to themselves, which is what happened on
> that Sunday back in 2007 when Youtube suddenly dropped off the net for
> everyone.
>
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> Mark Krenz
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