Github is blocked in China
It has become a little harder for Chinese programmers to work. Starting today, github.com is blocked in China - the largest source site on the Internet, a social network and the everyday tool of many developers.
The test due to the Great Chinese Firewall shows that the domain is unavailable from Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. As in other similar cases, blocking is performed by the DNS spoofing method with URL filtering. When requesting the IP address of the github.com domain, Chinese DNS servers return the wrong value of 59.24.3.173 instead of the correct 207.97.227.239.
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When prompted via OpenDNS or Google DNS, or when using a VPN, the site opens.
In the discussion on HN, a version was advanced that the blocking may be related to prohibited plugins and web applications for the purchase of train tickets on the state website 12306.cn . One of the web applications used a script lying on Github . By the way, because of him Github himself went offline a few days ago.
Accordingly, when third-party plug-ins to the browser and applications finally knocked down the site with ticket sales, the authorities began to block the offenders . Perhaps, Github got under the hand.
On the other hand, the Chinese authorities have other reasons to block Github. There have repeatedly laid out "malicious" programs, such as mongol.py - a program to identify Chinese state routers that filter or redirect traffic.
UPD 23.01 Access to Github from China has been restored .
The unlock occurred after the former head of Google’s division in China and local celebrity Kai-Fu Lee (Kai-Fu Lee) spoke in his microblog Sina Weibo (Chinese twitter) in the vein that the Github blocking is unjustified because the site does not promote any political ideology and does not contain reactionary content. At the same time, blocking Github separates local programmers from the world and harms the country's competitiveness. The message received more than 80,000 retweets, got into the media and soon Github was unblocked. In another tweet, Kai-Foo Lee compared the Github lock with an attempt to catch the mouse by setting the whole house on fire.
The test due to the Great Chinese Firewall shows that the domain is unavailable from Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. As in other similar cases, blocking is performed by the DNS spoofing method with URL filtering. When requesting the IP address of the github.com domain, Chinese DNS servers return the wrong value of 59.24.3.173 instead of the correct 207.97.227.239.
')
When prompted via OpenDNS or Google DNS, or when using a VPN, the site opens.
In the discussion on HN, a version was advanced that the blocking may be related to prohibited plugins and web applications for the purchase of train tickets on the state website 12306.cn . One of the web applications used a script lying on Github . By the way, because of him Github himself went offline a few days ago.
Accordingly, when third-party plug-ins to the browser and applications finally knocked down the site with ticket sales, the authorities began to block the offenders . Perhaps, Github got under the hand.
On the other hand, the Chinese authorities have other reasons to block Github. There have repeatedly laid out "malicious" programs, such as mongol.py - a program to identify Chinese state routers that filter or redirect traffic.
UPD 23.01 Access to Github from China has been restored .
The unlock occurred after the former head of Google’s division in China and local celebrity Kai-Fu Lee (Kai-Fu Lee) spoke in his microblog Sina Weibo (Chinese twitter) in the vein that the Github blocking is unjustified because the site does not promote any political ideology and does not contain reactionary content. At the same time, blocking Github separates local programmers from the world and harms the country's competitiveness. The message received more than 80,000 retweets, got into the media and soon Github was unblocked. In another tweet, Kai-Foo Lee compared the Github lock with an attempt to catch the mouse by setting the whole house on fire.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/166531/
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