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Yahoo! Small Business Hosting blocked by the Great Chinese Firewall

Two weeks ago, when I was setting up this blog, I tried using Yahoo Small Business Hosting, and it worked fine. I later decided to host it myself since I needed the increased control.

Just now I was trying to set up a WordPress site for the Norwegian Business Forum in Beijing, but all of the IPs for the site are blocked from China! Blocking is bad enough, but this heavy-handed blocking is really annoying. Here’s a shell transcript:

% host nbfchina.com
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.39
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.44
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.45
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.46
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.47
nbfchina.com has address 216.39.58.48
% telnet 216.39.58.39 80
Trying 216.39.58.39...
^C  after hanging forever

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One Response to “Yahoo! Small Business Hosting blocked by the Great Chinese Firewall”

  1. Chen Weiyang Says:
    December 14th, 2006 at 11:10 am

    Maybe you can try some php proxy things like “www.goodwaiter.com”.
    The encoded url and content can pass through the great firewall:)

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