China Internet problems

Wed Jul 18 17:18:41 UTC 2007

"The Internet treats censorship as damage and...Delivery Status Notification
(Failure) Can't find host mx201.sina.com"

It remains true that censorship is a single point of failure.

On 7/18/07, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> Reuters is reporting that some traffic between China and other countries
> is having some problems.  Sina.com and 263.com have notified its users
> about problems with overseas e-mail.
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> http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-07-18T124822Z_01_PEK91855_RTRIDST_0_TECH-CHINA-INTERNET-COL.XML&archived=False
> BEIJING (Reuters) - Internet users and company officials in China on
> Wednesday blamed a series of disruptions to cross-border email traffic on
> adjustments to the country's vast Internet surveillance system.
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