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Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 5 05:25:49 2010

Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:25:06 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
In-Reply-To: <F3318834F1F89D46857972DD4B411D70018FD0CA52@EXCHANGE.thenap.com>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> Is anyone aware whether or not Thailand has a centralized firewall on
> Internet access?

think of it as more like a monopoly telco with ties to the government

> We've had reports from several folks in Thailand that they are unable
> to get to some IP addresses in our network (this problem is
> reproducible on the traceroute.org Thailand sites as well).

yes, sites are being blocked.

> It seems to only be from Thailand, and only certain IPs on our network

yes, it is by specific ip addresses

> Does anyone know how to contact whoever is responsible for this
> firewall system to find out at the very least why this block is in
> place?

read your newspaper

randy


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