davejonesbkk Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Im not gonna speculate on what I think is wrong but this is what I can and cant open: FB -No CNN - Yes Yahoo - No Flikr - No I am on Maxnet. I'd also like to add that for the last 3-5 days Ive had problems opening a variety of sites , getting dns error messages. problems sending emails and also couldnt login to msn chat for a few hours the other day. I have changed my dns name servers from Maxnet's to open dns and that hasnt changed anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnbcm Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) No problems with Maxnet TTT in Chiang Mai although TTT seems to be having some of the same issues they were having a couple months ago. Trouble uploading, incredibly slow international speeds (more so than usual). Edited December 14, 2009 by mnbcm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Twitter is now redirecting to mict as well (I am on CAT) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinom Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hutch Pattaya no problems so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasert Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 CAT Hinet / Suratthani cnn.com - No access flickr.com - No access yahoo.com - No access facebook.com - access Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DP25 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Site content blocked as seen here: Your image doesn't show anything being blocked. It just shows a partially loaded Yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortenaa Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) All the reported sites workes fine for me, BUT www.e24.no (business news in norwegian) is redirected to mict.go.th Edited December 14, 2009 by mortenaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique355 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 TOT, Bangkok CNN.com OK Facebook.com OK Yahoo.com OK Flickr.com OK Monday 13:30 all seems normal and fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DP25 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 All the reported sites workes fine for me, BUTwww.e24.no (business news in norwegian) is redirected to mict.go.th Obviously, the Thai government is censoring the most crucial source of real information for the Thai public, the Norwegian language business press. The timeout couldn't possible be anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Your image doesn't show anything being blocked. It just shows a partially loaded Yahoo. Site content IS blocked, otherwise it would load completely. While the page is loading, I can see redirects being made to w3.mict. Since I have mict blocked (using HOSTS file), I don't get redirected to the actual mict webpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changian Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) www.e24.no (business news in norwegian) is redirected to mict.go.th You aren't missing much, main headline right now on e24.no, viewed via TOT on Koh Chang, is Får krisehjelp på 58 mrd. av nabo Dubai reddes i 12. time av en gavepakke på 10 milliarder dollar fra naboemiratet Abu Dhabi. Edited December 14, 2009 by Changian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DP25 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Your image doesn't show anything being blocked. It just shows a partially loaded Yahoo. Site content IS blocked, otherwise it would load completely. While the page is loading, I can see redirects being made to w3.mict. Since I have mict blocked (using HOSTS file), I don't get redirected to the actual mict webpage. If the government was trying to block Yahoo, you would not get a partially loaded Yahoo. You would get nothing at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) CSLoxinfo is fine for CNN, Flickr, Facebook (I didn't test further). I was using DTAC and AIS this morning and had no issues with facebook either. Sounds like a random upstream f@#$up. CAT? Edited December 14, 2009 by Crushdepth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurfRider Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 . "Twitter is now redirecting to mict as well (I am on CAT)" I assume you know the obvious "work-around" -- the one that is apparently not permissible to mention in a public Forum in "Amazing Thailand" . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasert Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 This problem is caused by a transparent proxy. Which makes this topic non discussable as per the forum rules 9) Not to discuss proxies or other methods of bypassing government blocking of websites. ouch..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 If the government was trying to block Yahoo, you would not get a partially loaded Yahoo. You would get nothing at all. I agree. Removing w3.mict from the HOSTS file, it takes (Yahoo) forever to load -- stuck at "Connecting to w3.mict.go.th..." I don't know <deleted> is going on, but I hope it gets fixed soon. I'm an avid YouTube user, not being able to access the site is a big deal to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereforgood Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 True Pattaya no problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yatyisam Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) Your image doesn't show anything being blocked. It just shows a partially loaded Yahoo. Site content IS blocked, otherwise it would load completely. While the page is loading, I can see redirects being made to w3.mict. Since I have mict blocked (using HOSTS file), I don't get redirected to the actual mict webpage. If the government was trying to block Yahoo, you would not get a partially loaded Yahoo. You would get nothing at all. True... IF the Thai Government is trying to block Yahoo, they will be 100% successful. However, I do believe that some parts of Yahoo are being blocked for some reason or another. In some cases, a main domain works for me, but sub-domains do not. For example (as I mentioned in another post), www.travian.com works, but s9.travian.com does not. When I try to load www.yahoo.com, the actual content is coming from several other sub-domains and even other yahoo-owned domains. Some of these are getting redirected to the MICT website. In the end, I am getting the same results as Supernova. Some parts of Yahoo are being blocked for me somewhere, somehow. That is a fact. I am not saying that the Thai Government is TRYING to block Yahoo. It's just that someone (ISPs?) or something is screwed up and some websites are being blocked and some are not. I hope we find out if it is intentional or not soon. Based on the reports here, I'd guess not. Otherwise, they are doing a poor job since everyone is getting different results. P.S. I am on CAT in Phuket. Edited December 14, 2009 by yatyisam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilatista Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 cannot access www.lci.fr also ... lemonde.fr , lefigaro.fr, 20minutes.fr OK for the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian5000 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Maxnet Chiang Mai...No problems here... Facebook and CNN working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) IT'S FIXED NOW... Access to all (problematic) sites restored @ 14:12 hrs. Edited December 14, 2009 by Supernova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurfRider Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 . "If the government was trying to block Yahoo, you would not get a partially loaded Yahoo. You would get nothing at all." They're not technically "blocking" Yahoo, they're diverting access through a MICT server in Bangkok that is severely overloaded and not able to process the barrage of input it's receiving, Some requests get through and are processed by the sausage grinder at a VERY slow pace - sending back only partial data -- other requests are waiting in the queue to be processed -- causing "time-outs", interminable browser grinding, etc. They will eventually need to stop the silliness or users will need to take matters into their own hands -- Either way, if the problem persists, Siam will become the laughing-stock of the Internet world. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phutoie2 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Face book OK, just checked it, however Immigration bureau blocked and reported as an attack site. Several weeks back could not get on Toyota's (Thailand) website, that too reported as an attack site!!. This is with TOT - 250km's North of BKK - small town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasert Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Face book OK, just checked it, however Immigration bureau blocked and reported as an attack site.Several weeks back could not get on Toyota's (Thailand) website, that too reported as an attack site!!. This is with TOT - 250km's North of BKK - small town. Hahaha, even google lists immigration as a bad website: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazey Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Out of those of you who are experiencing problems, what DNS servers are you using? Are you using the ones automatically assigned, or are you using something like OpenDNS etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasert Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Out of those of you who are experiencing problems, what DNS servers are you using? Are you using the ones automatically assigned, or are you using something like OpenDNS etc? This problem wasn't caused by a dns, but by a misconfigured transparent proxy. I'm using my own dns server, which retrieves all information direct from the root name servers around the world, and had the same issues as everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxe1200 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 TT&T Maxnet Premier in Pattaya, no problems... Same provider, same account in Hat Yai, no problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWheelMan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Maxnet indy - Chiang Mai. NO PROBLEMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekachat Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 CAT still controls the majority of international bandwidth as an International Internet Gateway (IIG). This could have all been from a Cyber Attack (North Korean response to weapons seizure for example). Has anyone (individual or news media) called the ISP's and specifically asked them what's up? This seems like an outage of some kind rather than a MICT sponsored ban. Their site may have been hacked as part of the potential cyber attack. Remember, cyber attacks are supposed to have this kind of non-conclusive mayhem with little-or-no-sense-to-it-all symptoms. If you encounter something now, at this hour or past this hour, do this: Timestamp: (list the time) Location: (list your general town/area) Provider: (list your ISP and type of connection used) Whatsmyip.com (visit in browser) Ping (name of site you can't hit) edition.cnn.com Traceroute or "tracert" in windows (name of site you can't hit) tracert edition.cnn.com nslookup [known as 'dig' in linux](name of site you can't hit) nslookup edition.cnn.com Browsers Affected: (list your browsers) Then reboot and see if all is same or different: (yes/no) As for virus activity, this could also have been a worm. Since software, hardware firewalls, wireless routers, switches and hubs are too many to troubleshoot, everyone should be trying the same sites, we should vet a list of them, keeping in mind not to visit illegal sites. So far there is no major news outlet reporting anything amiss. This could have been a router problem at CAT where old routing tables got uploaded to core routers, like say, an OC32 or OC128 someplace. If there is another major news outlet reporting this outside of Thailand please post it. This is all to do with port 80 HTTP, and blocked "American" sites. That in itself doesn't make sense, and I'll be having my girlfriend watching the nightly news to translate anything she catches on it. Anyhow, back to it, whatever that means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasa Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 TOT chiangmai CNN - OK Facbook - OK Yahoo Fianace - OK Flickr - OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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