[openstack-dev] China blocking access to OpenStack git review push

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 8 21:31:16 UTC 2014



On 9/8/2014 2:20 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Am I dreaming, or is the Chinese government is trying to push for the
> cloud, they said. However, today, bad surprise:
>
> # nmap -p 29418 23.253.232.87
>
> Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-09-09 03:10 CST
> Nmap scan report for review.openstack.org (23.253.232.87)
> Host is up (0.21s latency).
> PORT      STATE    SERVICE
> 29418/tcp filtered unknown
>
> Oh dear ... not fun!
>
> FYI, this is from China Unicom (eg: CNC Group)
>
> I'm guessing that this is the Great Firewall of China awesome automated
> ban script which detected too many ssh connection to a weird port. It
> has blocked a few of my servers recently too, as it became a way too
> aggressive. I very much prefer to use my laptop to use git review than
> having to bounce around servers. :(
>
> Are their alternative IPs that I could use for review.openstack.org?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
> P.S: If a Chinese official read this, an easy way to unlist (legitimate)
> servers access would be the first action any reasonable Chinese
> government people must do.
>
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Yeah the IBM DB2 third party CI is run from a team in China and they've 
been blocked for a few weeks now.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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