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Chinese Firewall Test



Checks whether a site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China. This test checks across a number of servers from various locations in mainland China to determine if access to the site provided is possible from behind the Great Firewall of China.

This test checks for symptoms of DNS poisoning, one of the more common methods used by the Chinese government to block access to websites.
Top 10 tested domains:
   1. github.com
   2. facebook.com
   3. google.com
   4. youtube.com
   5. wikileaks.ch
   6. twitter.com
   7. dropbox.com
   8. gmail.com
   9. wikipedia.org
   10. cnn.com

URL / Domain:

Chinese firewall test results for github.com
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Testing if hostname is DNS poisoned
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Expected value of DNS A records:
204.232.175.90

LocationLookup ResultStatus
Beijing 204.232.175.90
ok
Shenzen 204.232.175.90
ok
Inner Mongolia 204.232.175.90
ok
Heilongjiang Province 204.232.175.90
ok
Yunnan Province204.232.175.90
ok

All servers were able to reach your site. This means that the hostname itself is accessible from within mainland China.

Testing if URL is blocked over HTTP(s)
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HTTP ResponseStatus
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

This URL appears to be accessible from mainland China.



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