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Saturday, August 17, 2002

listen4ever.com A followup to Ray and Dave regarding www.listen4ever.com.  Traceroute not reaching its destination doesn't really mean the site is blocked but rather it might be that ICMP packets are not allowed through which seems to be the case in this situation.  Looking a bit deeper into what the "No web site is configured at this address" might be coming from I traced some packets and it seems this data is coming back directly from the IP associated with www.listen4ever.com.  So my guess is that they are blocking the packets directly and not some of the ISP's in the US.  However, tough to prove as I suppose it is possible for the ISP's to make it look as though the packets are coming directly from the end-point but replacing the contents.  I highly doubt they are smart enough to do this and more importantly sounds like it would be illegal as well. "Listen4Ever: "No web site is configured at this address." - Dave Winer. "FYI - at this moment, the site looks to be blocked from inside China (cn.net): Tracing route to www.listen4ever.com [61.136.61.40] over a maximum of 30 hops: 17 92 ms 94 ms 94 ms p1-1-2-3.a07.sttlwa01.us.ce.verio.net [204.203.3.6] 18 95 ms 94 ms 94 ms border16s.ge2-0-bbnet1.sea.pnap.net [206.253.192.140] 19 481 ms 478 ms 478 ms verestar-2.border16s.sea.pnap.net [206.253.223.134] 20 481 ms 478 ms 481 ms 202.97.4.149 21 463 ms 459 ms 463 ms 202.97.4.145 22 458 ms 463 ms 463 ms p-15-0-r2-c-bjbj-1.cn.net [202.97.33.21] 23 460 ms 463 ms 459 ms p-2-0-r1-a-tjtj-1.cn.net [202.97.38.90] 24 202.99.66.142 reports: Destination net unreachable. Trace complete." - Ray Ozzie   12:32:20 PM

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