Mainland Users Report Internet Glitch on April 4th
No wonder most of the data centers in Hong Kong had such problem yesterday morning, GFW again, yuck!
Yesterday is kind of strange, ping to Hong Kong IP remains as low as 9-15ms, but non of the TCP ports can be opened, including VPN or SSL, not even regular port 80.
I think it’s probably due to the recent power struggle in Mainland causing the Internet censorship to be upgraded at China Telecom’s backbone network.
Some mainland Internet users reported that they couldn’t access overseas Websites such as CNN and MSN as usual with tools that help get over the Great Firewall since 10:40am Thursday.
According to a Google+ post, a user suspected that the glitch was caused by various service providers’ recent firewall upgrade or a problem in China Telecom’s backbone network.
The glitch has gone reportedly after noon. None of the mainland ISPs has offered explanations or statements on the problem by far.
