Right now there is no internet service in all of Xinjiang. This is confirmed by my relatives there. Of course we don’t know if GPRS or CDMA data access is blocked. People can always use a modem to and dial up to a POP in another city – but the point isn’t about stopping people like myself, that in 1999 unwired their hotel room phone jack in order to hook up a modem and dial out.

So if I were a betting man, I would guess that October 1st brings a lifting of net blockage in Xinjiang and maybe Face Book and Twitter and Friend Feed blocking for the rest of us.

Though like anything in China….don’t hold your breath. But maybe we will have something else to celebrate on China National Day?

Flickr works still for chat and forums – but no images.

This time it is not even the “Connection Reset” usual suspect. Nothing is happening so I am guessing DNS poisoning.

Going to run some tests from different servers across China in different cities and different networks and also do some DNS zone queries to see what is up. 20 mins and counting…….

UPDATE: Can confirm that Shanghai and Nanjing also not working. Also not a “Connection Reset” error so this is not happening due to the automated and distributed filter system. This must be happening at the international gateway as packets are just being dropped as opposed to having TCP connection resets inserted into the streams.

30 mins and counting…