It's my understanding that the Chinese government blocks access to *all* web
sites that are located outside of China.

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From: "Matthew" <>
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: website blocked in China

Matthew,
                I had a lengthy reply prepared on the day your inquiry came
through and decided not to submit because you has cross-posted to a number
of NG's.
In addition the one NG (of which I have only recently again resumed
monitoring) that I do monitor, this subject is HIGHLY off-topic.

When I began using htaccess nearly four years ago, my primary initial goal
was to deny the far east traffic which is not beneficial to my websites. I
have been successful in that regard. Last fall I decided to separate the
Oceanic IP ranges from the APNIC blocks to allow their access.

I have looked briefly back through my records of IP ranges and denials
(which is quite extensive,) if there are any recent far east visitors than I
have failed to keep records because they fall under a previous denial which
was set-up.

As a result I can only advise you that I had far east robots either crawling
or attempting to crawl my sites as late as 2002.
Whether China's control policies concerning outside countries has changed
between 2002 and 2004 I'm unable to advise you.

I do have a suggestion for a resolution of your inquiry. It may work or it
may NOT work.

The Oceanic countries and their IP ranges fall under the APNIC block range
which is over the entire far east.
You might try establishing a domain in one of the mixed block ranges to see
if access would be "slipped" through.
First you need to determine a block which has a variety of confusing and
separate scattered ranges used by both far east and Oceanic countries.
Then you would be required to find a web site hosting company in one of the
scattered ranges while being sold by an Oceanic provider.

It's not going to be an easy task and you might start off first gathering a
list of the Oceanic hosting companies and sorting out their IP ranges used.
Then comparing to a varied block range.

Best of luck