openvpn.net is BLOCKED

[Ahmed Mekkawy]

openvpn.net is blocked in Egypt. this can mean lots of things.. larger blocking coming?

seems that google issue is getting serious

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[Ahmed Kamal]

meh! but that doesn't even make much sense, as openvpn.net is not a public vpn endpoint

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[Mostafa Hussein]

Can't connect to openvpn.net .. connection times out. However this is
my traceroute, I am using Noor DSL.

I am not an expert in this but seems that traceroute reaches a server
in Dallas, Texas and the dies.

M.

$ traceroute openvpn.net
traceroute to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 3.866 ms 3.832 ms 3.816 ms
2 bng.rams.ca (217.139.253.19) 41.483 ms 41.476 ms 46.727 ms
3 172.17.10.98 (172.17.10.98) 67.476 ms 67.478 ms 172.17.10.102
(172.17.10.102) 67.422 ms
4 host-41.33.173.69.tedata.net (41.33.173.69) 67.415 ms 67.393 ms 67.339 ms
5 213.242.116.13 (213.242.116.13) 98.646 ms 98.664 ms
213.242.116.9 (213.242.116.9) 104.711 ms
6 * * *
7 ae-23-23.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.126) 219.404 ms
ae-21-21.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.118) 222.331 ms
ae-23-23.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.126) 228.058 ms
8 ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54) 229.909 ms
ae-43-43.ebr2.washington1.level3.net (4.69.137.58) 231.914 ms
235.401 ms
9 ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154) 237.785 ms
243.621 ms 247.265 ms
10 ae-3-80.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.146) 255.760 ms
ae-2-70.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.82) 259.259 ms
ae-1-60.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.18) 262.997 ms
11 softlayer-t.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.53.116.66) 264.969 ms
266.859 ms 175.538 ms
12 ae7.bbr02.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.195) 175.523 ms
175.510 ms 222.325 ms
13 ae1.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.155) 228.545 ms
233.709 ms 239.805 ms
14 ae1.bbr02.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.131) 248.538 ms
248.575 ms 248.562 ms
15 ae7.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.168) 248.508 ms
253.250 ms 253.249 ms
16 ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144) 262.679 ms
262.703 ms 262.690 ms
17 ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199) 236.509 ms
ae0.dar02.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.159) 236.474 ms
ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199) 240.017 ms
18 po2.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.138) 234.613 ms
po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134) 244.078 ms
237.931 ms
19 * * *
[...]
30 * * *

[Ahmed Mekkawy]

traceroute passes. they only blocked port 80

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[Ahmed Faissl]

يبقى الحقوا نزّلوا Tor Browser بقه :)

Ahmed Faissl
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Goes without saying..

[Anas Emad]

and about that ?

: http://حماية.مصر/

can we send Q to government about this website and what happen 

and we need more transparent :(

we need more clarification, 

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[Ahmed Mekkawy]

is ghis website even official? was it mentioned in any governmental website? this can be a hoax.

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[AMahdy AbdElAziz]

AFAK no action was taken yet regarding Google thing.

[Tamer Zaki]

ï؟½The IP belongs to MCIT

Ahmed Mekkawy wrote:

is ghis website even official? was it mentioned in any governmental website? this can be a hoax.

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On Feb 17, 2013 2:02 PM, "Anas Emad" <anas...@gmail.com> wrote:

and about that ?

:ï؟½http://ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½.ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½/

can we send Q to government about this website and what happenï؟½

and we need moreï؟½transparent :(

we need moreï؟½clarification,ï؟½

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ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½
ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½
http://www.qafeer.com

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Ahmed Faissl <ahmed...@gmail.com> wrote:

ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ Tor Browser ï؟½ï؟½ï؟½ :)

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy <ahmed....@spirulasystems.com> wrote:

traceroute passes. they only blocked port 80

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On Feb 17, 2013 1:15 PM, "Mostafa Hussein" <mos...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can't connect to openvpn.net .. connection times out. However this is
my traceroute, I am using Noor DSL.

I am not an expert in this but seems that traceroute reaches a server
in Dallas, Texas and the dies.

M.

$ traceroute openvpn.net
traceroute to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

ï؟½1 ï؟½192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) ï؟½3.866 ms ï؟½3.832 ms ï؟½3.816 ms
ï؟½2 ï؟½bng.rams.ca (217.139.253.19) ï؟½41.483 ms ï؟½41.476 ms ï؟½46.727 ms
ï؟½3 ï؟½172.17.10.98 (172.17.10.98) ï؟½67.476 ms ï؟½67.478 ms 172.17.10.102
(172.17.10.102) ï؟½67.422 ms
ï؟½4 ï؟½host-41.33.173.69.tedata.net (41.33.173.69) ï؟½67.415 ms ï؟½67.393 ms ï؟½67.339 ms
ï؟½5 ï؟½213.242.116.13 (213.242.116.13) ï؟½98.646 ms ï؟½98.664 ms
213.242.116.9 (213.242.116.9) ï؟½104.711 ms
ï؟½6 ï؟½* * *
ï؟½7 ï؟½ae-23-23.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.126) ï؟½219.404 ms
ae-21-21.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.118) ï؟½222.331 ms
ae-23-23.ebr2.paris1.level3.net (4.69.143.126) ï؟½228.058 ms
ï؟½8 ï؟½ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54) ï؟½229.909 ms
ae-43-43.ebr2.washington1.level3.net (4.69.137.58) ï؟½231.914 ms
235.401 ms
ï؟½9 ï؟½ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154) ï؟½237.785 ms
243.621 ms ï؟½247.265 ms
10 ï؟½ae-3-80.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.146) ï؟½255.760 ms
ae-2-70.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.82) ï؟½259.259 ms
ae-1-60.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.69.149.18) ï؟½262.997 ms
11 ï؟½softlayer-t.edge3.washington4.level3.net (4.53.116.66) ï؟½264.969 ms
ï؟½266.859 ms ï؟½175.538 ms
12 ï؟½ae7.bbr02.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.195) ï؟½175.523 ms
ï؟½175.510 ms ï؟½222.325 ms
13 ï؟½ae1.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.155) ï؟½228.545 ms
ï؟½233.709 ms ï؟½239.805 ms
14 ï؟½ae1.bbr02.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.131) ï؟½248.538 ms
ï؟½248.575 ms ï؟½248.562 ms
15 ï؟½ae7.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.168) ï؟½248.508 ms
ï؟½253.250 ms ï؟½253.249 ms
16 ï؟½ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144) ï؟½262.679 ms
ï؟½262.703 ms ï؟½262.690 ms
17 ï؟½ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199) ï؟½236.509 ms
ae0.dar02.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.159) ï؟½236.474 ms
ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199) ï؟½240.017 ms
18 ï؟½po2.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.138) ï؟½234.613 ms
po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134) ï؟½244.078 ms
237.931 ms
19 ï؟½* * *
[...]
30 ï؟½* * *

ï؟½
ï؟½

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[Muhammad Emam]

I think it's time to start thinking about a counter strategy, because NTRA can totally block anything and blocking Google is gonna be only a start.

And by a counter-strategy, I don't mean looking for bypassing methods, I mean fighting back to prevent them from taking this step in first place.

Regards,

Muhammad

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Tamer Zaki <ta...@phoenixegypt.com> wrote:

 The IP belongs to MCIT

Ahmed Mekkawy wrote:

is ghis website even official? was it mentioned in any governmental website? this can be a hoax.

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www.SpirulaSystems.com

On Feb 17, 2013 2:02 PM, "Anas Emad" <anas...@gmail.com> wrote:

and about that ?

: http://حماية.مصر/

can we send Q to government about this website and what happen 

and we need more transparent :(

we need more clarification, 

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فريق قفير

http://www.qafeer.com

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Ahmed Faissl <ahmed...@gmail.com> wrote:

يبقى الحقوا نزّلوا Tor Browser بقه :)

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy <ahmed....@spirulasystems.com> wrote:

traceroute passes. they only blocked port 80

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Founder | CTO
www.SpirulaSystems.com

On Feb 17, 2013 1:15 PM, "Mostafa Hussein" <mos...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can't connect to openvpn.net .. connection times out. However this is
my traceroute, I am using Noor DSL.

I am not an expert in this but seems that traceroute reaches a server
in Dallas, Texas and the dies.

M.

$ traceroute openvpn.net
traceroute to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134)  244.078 ms
237.931 ms
19  * * *
[...]
30  * * *

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[Rayna]

Additional info: not sure what the issue is but one can connect to openvpn.net sometimes. When I ssh to some virtual machine, it allows me to wget ... or not. Also, sometimes the wget works, sometimes it doesn't. The IP address that sends the last hop response (the traceroute log) is openvpn.net home so to speak (its IP is 67.228.116.150).

So -- at least, thus far -- it does not seem to be the govt blocking it: it just has issues on its end, in other countries...

Rayna

2013/2/17 Rayna <rayn...@gmail.com>

Not sure the traceroute tells you something about blocking. Fact is a traceroute with various options & through different ports (80, 22) from Paris stops at exactly the same point (somewhere within the US, guessing around Seattle). They may just have issues there.

Rayna

2013/2/17 Mostafa Hussein <mos...@gmail.com>

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[Rayna]

Not sure the traceroute tells you something about blocking. Fact is a traceroute with various options & through different ports (80, 22) from Paris stops at exactly the same point (somewhere within the US, guessing around Seattle). They may just have issues there.

Rayna

2013/2/17 Mostafa Hussein <mos...@gmail.com>

Can't connect to openvpn.net .. connection times out. However this is

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[Muhammad Emam]

Hi Rayna,

Would you please let me know which ISP are you using?

Thanks

[Ahmed El-Ezabi]

I just came home and checked, the issue is local, here is the result from a US based server:

telnet openvpn.net 80

Trying 67.228.116.150...

Connected to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150).

Escape character is '^]'.

Connection closed by foreign host.

Of course the connection is closed because I sent a non http request (CR)

While locally from a TEData DSL:

telnet openvpn.net 80

Trying 67.228.116.150...

telnet: connect to address 67.228.116.150: Connection timed out

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

Sill unable to determine the exact reason

[Ahmed El-Ezabi]

Again everybody, this seems not to be related with anything in Egypt

tcptraceroute openvpn.net 80

Selected device eth0, address 192.168.1.3, port 56331 for outgoing packets

Tracing the path to openvpn.net (67.228.116.150) on TCP port 80 (http), 30 hops max

 1  192.168.1.1  0.336 ms  0.168 ms  0.190 ms

 2  NASR4-R02C-C-EG (163.121.171.51)  10.730 ms  9.776 ms  9.263 ms

 3  host-163.121.211.134.tedata.net (163.121.211.134)  9.282 ms  9.686 ms  11.975 ms

 4  host-163.121.211.134.tedata.net (163.121.211.134)  9.995 ms  11.950 ms  9.753 ms

 5  host-163.121.229.37.tedata.net (163.121.229.37)  13.972 ms  12.126 ms  12.242 ms

 6  10.42.0.3  11.237 ms  10.275 ms  10.956 ms

 7  10.32.8.107  10.055 ms  11.950 ms  9.988 ms

 8  213.242.116.13  122.859 ms  66.891 ms  66.952 ms

 9  * * *

10  ae-23-23.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.126)  171.805 ms  147.086 ms  147.050 ms

11  ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54)  149.887 ms  150.062 ms  149.599 ms

12  ae-72-72.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.150)  146.399 ms  146.370 ms  146.533 ms

13  * ae-2-70.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.82) 144.499 ms  145.212 ms

14  SOFTLAYER-T.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.53.116.66)  147.304 ms  150.459 ms  148.490 ms

15  ae7.bbr02.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.195)  144.878 ms  149.512 ms  147.478 ms

16  ae1.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.155)  165.508 ms  164.161 ms  163.520 ms

17  ae1.bbr02.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.131)  195.270 ms  193.631 ms  196.005 ms

18  ae7.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.168)  198.753 ms  198.302 ms  198.470 ms

19  ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144)  331.605 ms  223.560 ms  226.579 ms

20  ae0.dar01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199)  225.111 ms  225.040 ms  240.154 ms

21  po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134)  222.635 ms  224.517 ms  223.403 ms

22  * * *

23  * * *

So the connection drops after leaving Egypt

So maybe because we are very alert in this regard that any unreachable website puts us in a panic mode :-D

[Rayna]

Thanks, Ahmed, for repeating all over again what has been said and tested from elsewhere out of Egypt... :)

2013/2/17 Ahmed El-Ezabi <ele...@gmail.com>

[Ahmed El-Ezabi]

Well it was worth seeing how concerned people are to such matters.

Now back to open egypt...

[Ahmed Mekkawy]

well I guess I owe Rayna a big apology after a long twitter conversation. this showed up she was right from the beginning.

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[Rayna]

Ya3ni question is not to apologize or to be right. I didn't jump in the discussion just to be right, I wasn't sure how to interpret the outputs btw and was expecting someone more tech-savvy than me from this list to make sense of the incoherent stuff I was obtaining. I jumped in the discussion because we do need to act in a neat way, and this time the whole was just not clear. What happens if every time there is a technical flaw we accuse the government without substantial arguments? What credibility for claimed professionals and tech experts who aren't able to get their tools properly? And what if next time we are right but previous flawed cases have made us loose any credibility?

I think there must be a better coordination to avoid such crap spreading over (https://twitter.com/hateVodafoneEG/status/303116139637112832 + hystery getting over https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=openvpn&src=typd). I do care that people here who are willing to step forward and bring a constructive action both in terms of outreach to the public and advocacy with officials do the stuff right. Thus, claiming there is a targeted blocking of particular services as a follow-up of govt's decision to block Google (which is totally wrong, btw; and also, there was an official declaration today saying Youtube ban cannot be enforced...) makes us appear like first-year undergrads having seen a CLI for the first time in their life and thinking they are the kings of da world.

Ain't willing of being patronizing so don't get me wrong. It is simply a feedback from someone who has not only observed but also done such stuff & failed sometimes. You are the tech-savvy people who know how to assess this kind of things. Act as such :)

Wishing you a nice evening,
Rayna

2013/2/17 Ahmed Mekkawy <ahmed....@spirulasystems.com>

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و أنا أوكّد الحجب. أستخدم لنك.نت
غريب جدا!

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> Ahmed Mekkawy <ahmed....@spirulasystems.com> Feb 17 12:35PM +0200

[Mostafa Hussein]

Dear Ahmed,

Please check the entire email thread for detailed information. But, FYI here is what we know about this issue for now:

1 - Site isn't blocked in Egypt as evidenced by use of tcptraceroute from different ISPs

2 - Site accessibility is weird in other parts of the world, specially France and Germany

3 - Tedata denied blocking and says the blocking is from the openvpn.net end.

4 - The use of OpenVPN software or VPN services isn't affected, it's only this particular site that doesn't respond.

5 - openvpn.net domain name resolves normally with Egyptian ISP DNS servers.

@alaa was investigating the problem with OpenVPN people on IRC and the problem till now seems to be a DoS filter somewhere in the way that's acting weird.

Cheers,

Mostafa

[Ahmed Soliman]

Yes, apparently some DDoS attack is coming from this region and they blocked the whole range, it has nothing to do with the government. Plus, OpenVPN website itself is not super valuable.

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