[aklug] Re: Alaska peering

Unless your proxy is somehow re-writing return packets to go directly
to you in China, Google shouldn't know it's going anywhere but to
Virginia..

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:

> 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 14:23:38 2010