[tor-talk] meek-azure was blocked in China for about 4 days

Nathan Freitas nathan at freitas.net
Tue Feb 9 01:21:47 UTC 2016


On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 06:02 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> For about four days (January 29 to February 1, 2016), meek-azure was
> blocked in China. The blocking may not have been intended for
> meek-azure, and may not have been deliberate blocking, but it had the
> effect of blocking the service. It is unblocked again since February 2.
> 
> The nature of the event seems to be dropping of HTTPS connections to a
> specific Azure CDN edge server, cs3.wpc.v0cdn.net, which at the time had
> an IP address of 68.232.45.200. Plain HTTP connections were not
> affected. The blocking was not DNS blocking of a specific domain name,
> nor was it TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) filtering: all domain names
> we tried for the IP address failed equally.

Was it port 443 only? What if HTTPS was also made available on port
8443? Would that still allow the domain fronting to work?



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