[aklug] Re: Alaska peering

Royce Williams wrote, on 6/8/2010 2:10 PM:
> Bruce Hill wrote, on 6/8/2010 1:53 PM:
>> We live in China. Google's little political stunts don't fool anyone
>> there. The Great Chinese Firewall blocks YouTube incoming. We can tunnel
>> to a proxy in Virginia and bypass it easily enough. But then Google (owner
>> of YouTube) checks your packets (must have flash and java for YouTube) and
>> when they see the packets bound for China, they block it. So yes, Google,
>> just like MSN and Yahoo, are evil liars to the core. What else is new?
>> Just don't buy into their whining about China censorship.
>
> I'm not a Google apologist, but is it widely known that Google is doing
> this, and is it clear that it is happening deliberately (and not some
> issue somewhere else?)

I forgot to mention why I'm asking.

The proxy in Virginia would have to be two-way. In other words, the
traffic would look like it was coming streaming from YouTube to
Virginia. I don't see how Google (or anyone) could detect that the
traffic was actually going to China.

Royce
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Received on Tue Jun 8 14:15:04 2010